totalité

\tɔ.ta.li.te\

/\tɔ.ta.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“totalité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,172. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,172
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Total ; tout.

Corpus desk

Index FR-totalite · totalité · French

totalité · rank #3,172 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,172
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH soutient

Nearest frequency peer: soutient (-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 « totalité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « totalité » 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).

totalité vs totale
63% similar
totalité vs tonalité
88% similar
totalité vs tonalités
78% similar

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

Key facts for totalité
PropertyValue
Headwordtotalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔ.ta.li.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,172
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « totalité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.totalitése 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 « soutient » (#3,171), « trump » (#3,173), « sensible » (#3,169). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « totalité » est au #3,172. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around totalité (IPA \tɔ.ta.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,172 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Total ; tout.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for totalité, with forms such as "ottalité", "toatlité", and "totailté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "totale", "tonalité", "tonalités", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is totalité, spelled T-O-T-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Total ; tout.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Aucun dealeur local ne peut satisfaire la totalité de la nouvelle demande de cannabis et les jeunes les plus téméraires s’aventurent dans les cités des environs pour s'approvisionner, […].
  2. Cette fois, ce fut Damen que les soldats congratulèrent. Il revêtait désormais un prestige nouveau à leurs yeux, en tant que celui dont les réflexes affûtés avaient sauvé la moitié des hommes et la totalité du vin.

This word in other languages

totality(English)totalidad(Español)totalidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ottalité
  • toatlité
  • totailté
  • totalite
  • totalitté
  • totaliét
  • totallité
  • totaltié
  • totlaité
  • tottalité
  • ttoalité
  • ttotalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of totalité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ottalité2toatlité2totailté2totalite1totalitté1totaliét2totallité1totaltié2
Edit distance from "totalité"

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 "totalité"?
"totalité" is spelled T-O-T-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔ.ta.li.te\.
What does "totalité" mean?
As a noun, "totalité" means: Total ; tout.
What words are commonly confused with "totalité"?
"totalité" is commonly confused with "totale", "tonalité", "tonalités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "totalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "totalité" is \tɔ.ta.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "totalité" come from?
"totalité" 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 "totalité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

soutient#3,171sensible#3,169éditions#3,176richesse#3,166

Similar misspelling depth

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

probable12 variantsattendent12 variantspriorité12 variantsPortugal12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list