timidité

\ti.mi.di.te\

/\ti.mi.di.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“timidité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,006
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentiment d’appréhension face à une situation sociale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-timidite · timidité · French

timidité · rank #20,006 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #20,006
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Text

Nearest frequency peer: Text (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « timidité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « timidité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

timidité vs timide
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for timidité
PropertyValue
Headwordtimidité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.mi.di.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,006
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « timidité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).timiditése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Text » (#20,005), « traducteurs » (#20,007), « tendues » (#20,004). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « timidité » est au #20,006. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around timidité (IPA \ti.mi.di.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,006 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for timidité, with forms such as "itmidité", "tiimdité", and "timdiité". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "timide", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is timidité, spelled T-I-M-I-D-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sentiment d’appréhension face à une situation sociale.
  2. 2
    Caractère de celui qui est timide.
  3. 3
    Esprit, action, paroles qui manquent de hardiesse ou d'envergure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how timidité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À ce nom, elle fut prise d’une terrible timidité.
  2. Il sentait couler dans ses veines toute la sanie des rêves impuissants, des appétences infécondes, et sur son échine s’appesantissait le fardeau de la résignation et de la timidité.

This word in other languages

shyness(English)timidez(Español)Scheu(Deutsch)timidez(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itmidité
  • tiimdité
  • timdiité
  • timiddité
  • timidite
  • timiditté
  • timidiét
  • timidtié
  • timiidté
  • timmidité
  • tmiidité
  • ttimidité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of timidité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

itmidité2tiimdité2timdiité2timiddité1timidite1timiditté1timidiét2timidtié2
Edit distance from "timidité"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "timidité"?
"timidité" is spelled T-I-M-I-D-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.mi.di.te\.
What does "timidité" mean?
As a noun, "timidité" means: Sentiment d’appréhension face à une situation sociale.
What words are commonly confused with "timidité"?
"timidité" is commonly confused with "timide". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "timidité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "timidité" is \ti.mi.di.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "timidité" come from?
"timidité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "timidité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list