universités
\y.ni.vɛʁ.si.te\
The verdict
“universités” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,811
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de université.
Corpus desk
Index FR-universites · universités · French
universités · rank #3,811 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #3,811
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH unies
Nearest frequency peer: unies (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “universités”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tony
Tony
96,193 corpus weight
- tués
tués
96,192 corpus weight
- unies
unies
96,191 corpus weight
- universités
universités
96,190 corpus weight
- vi
vi
96,189 corpus weight
- villa
villa
96,188 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “universités” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | universités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ni.vɛʁ.si.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “universités” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around universités (IPA \y.ni.vɛʁ.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,811 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de université.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for universités, with forms such as "nuiversités", "uinversités", and "unievrsités". 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, "university", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is universités, spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de université.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how universités appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enseignement des glossateurs vint animer en France les universités naissantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuiversités
- uinversités
- unievrsités
- univeristés
- univerrsités
- universites
- universitsé
- universittés
- universitéss
- universiéts
- universsités
- universtiés
- univesrités
- univresités
- univversités
- unniversités
- unviersités
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of universités - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "universités", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "university". View pair
- 17 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,811 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "U" letter cohort. U–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.