unicité

\y.ni.si.te\

/\y.ni.si.te\/ noun

The verdict

“unicité” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,005
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est unique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-unicite · unicité · French

unicité · rank #28,005 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,005
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH ultérieurs

Nearest frequency peer: ultérieurs (-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 « unicité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « unicité » 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).

unicité vs unité
71% similar
unicité vs unifié
71% similar
unicité vs utilité
71% similar

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

Key facts for unicité
PropertyValue
Headwordunicité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\y.ni.si.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#28,005
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « unicité »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ultérieurs » (#28,004), « URSSAF » (#28,006), « used » (#28,007). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « unicité » est au #28,005. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around unicité (IPA \y.ni.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,005 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est unique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for unicité, with forms such as "nuicité", "uincité", and "unciité". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "unité", "unifié", "utilité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is unicité, spelled U-N-I-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est unique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nous sommes toujours dans la loi d'unicité : chacun est unique, chacun a donc son chemin tout à fait particulier à vivre.
  2. Dans un premier moment, je présenterai un échantillon de cette spéculation où le philosophe veut prouver l’unicité de Dieu à partir des preuves conjuguées d’une unicité selon la possibilité et d’une unicité selon l’actualité.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • nuicité
  • uincité
  • unciité
  • uniccité
  • unicite
  • unicitté
  • uniciét
  • unictié
  • uniicté
  • unnicité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unicité - 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.

nuicité2uincité2unciité2uniccité1unicite1unicitté1uniciét2unictié2
Edit distance from "unicité"

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 "unicité"?
"unicité" is spelled U-N-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \y.ni.si.te\.
What does "unicité" mean?
As a noun, "unicité" means: Qualité de ce qui est unique.
What words are commonly confused with "unicité"?
"unicité" is commonly confused with "unité", "unifié", "utilité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "unicité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "unicité" is \y.ni.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "unicité" come from?
"unicité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list