transit

\tʁɑ̃.zit\

/\tʁɑ̃.zit\/ noun

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The verdict

“transit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,570
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté de faire passer des marchandises, des denrées par le territoire d’un État, d’une commune, sans payer les droits de douane ou d’octroi, à condition qu’elles ne fassent que traverser ce terri...

Corpus desk

Index FR-transit · transit · French

transit · rank #9,570 · 11 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,570
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH trame

Nearest frequency peer: trame (-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 « transit »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « transit » 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).

transit vs transmis
75% similar
transit vs transmet
75% similar
transit vs transiter
78% similar

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

Key facts for transit
PropertyValue
Headwordtransit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɑ̃.zit\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,570
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « transit »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).transitse 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 « trame » (#9,569), « Turin » (#9,571), « toxique » (#9,568). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « transit » est au #9,570. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around transit (IPA \tʁɑ̃.zit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,570 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for transit, with forms such as "rtansit", "tarnsit", and "tranist". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "transmis", "transmet", "transiter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is transit, spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faculté de faire passer des marchandises, des denrées par le territoire d’un État, d’une commune, sans payer les droits de douane ou d’octroi, à condition qu’elles ne fassent que traverser ce territoire.
  2. 2
    Fait de traverser une ville, une région, ou un pays sans s’y arrêter.
  3. 3
    Passage d’un objet céleste entre un observateur et un autre objet céleste.
  4. 4
    Passage d’une planète dans le zodiaque au point où s'était trouvé auparavant un autre astre, ou bien elle-même.
  5. 5
    Transit intestinal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Des marchandises en transit.
  2. La circulation de transit des camions génère des nuisances et de l’insécurité dans les zones urbaines.

Antonyms

anti-transit

This word in other languages

transit(English)tránsito(Español)Durchgang(Deutsch)trânsito(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtansit
  • tarnsit
  • tranist
  • trannsit
  • transitt
  • transsit
  • transti
  • trasnit
  • trnasit
  • trransit
  • ttransit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of transit - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

rtansit2tarnsit2tranist2trannsit1transitt1transsit1transti2trasnit2
Edit distance from "transit"

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 "transit"?
"transit" is spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ̃.zit\.
What does "transit" mean?
As a noun, "transit" means: Faculté de faire passer des marchandises, des denrées par le territoire d’un État, d’une commune, sans payer les droits de douane ou d’octroi, à condition qu’elles ne fassent que traverser ce terri...
What words are commonly confused with "transit"?
"transit" is commonly confused with "transmis", "transmet", "transiter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "transit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "transit" is \tʁɑ̃.zit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "transit" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

toxique#9,568tombeau#9,567textile#9,565visions#9,575

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

souriant11 variantsélargir11 variantsrecourir11 variantsalliances11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list