universitaires
\y.ni.vɛʁ.si.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“universitaires” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,513
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de l’adjectif universitaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-universitaires · universitaires · French
universitaires · rank #5,513 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,513
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH trophée
Nearest frequency peer: trophée (-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 « universitaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- travaillant
travaillant
94,491 corpus weight
- tribunaux
tribunaux
94,490 corpus weight
- trophée
trophée
94,489 corpus weight
- universitai…
universitaires
94,488 corpus weight
- énergies
énergies
94,487 corpus weight
- étendre
étendre
94,486 corpus weight
What this shows « universitaires » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | universitaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.ni.vɛʁ.si.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #5,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « universitaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around universitaires (IPA \y.ni.vɛʁ.si.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,513 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de l’adjectif universitaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for universitaires, with forms such as "nuiversitaires", "uinversitaires", and "unievrsitaires". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "universitaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is universitaires, spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de l’adjectif universitaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how universitaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De l’angoisse (celle de la propriété littéraire, ou de l’écriture devenue irresponsable), le livre parle peu : elle est, s’il s’en éprouve le dépositaire, le fait à venir du lecteur, qui devra se ménager un accès autonome jusqu’à elle, en tirant des conséquences singulières d’énoncés universitaires sereins, peu propices en apparence à désensommeiller les…
Après un premier contrat avec les Presses Universitaires de Lyon (PUL), dénoncé en 1984, les deux principales collections sont, depuis la même date, co-diffusées par la MOM et De Boccard-Diffusion à Paris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuiversitaires
- uinversitaires
- unievrsitaires
- univeristaires
- univerrsitaires
- universiatires
- universitaiers
- universitairess
- universitairres
- universitairse
- universitaries
- universitiares
- universittaires
- universsitaires
- universtiaires
- univesritaires
- univresitaires
- univversitaires
- unniversitaires
- unviersitaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of universitaires - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).