variabilité
\va.ʁja.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“variabilité” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #24,428 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #24,428
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Disposition habituelle à varier.
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 | variabilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ʁja.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “variabilité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for variabilité is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.ʁja.bi.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,428 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Disposition habituelle à varier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for variabilité, with forms such as "avriabilité", "vairabilité", and "varaibilité". 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, "viabilité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is variabilité, spelled V-A-R-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Disposition habituelle à varier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avriabilité,vairabilité,varaibilité,variabbilité,variabiilté,variabilite,variabilitté,variabiliét,variabillité,variabiltié,variabliité,variaiblité,varibailité,varriabilité,vraiabilité,vvariabilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of variabilité - 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.
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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Using “variabilité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-A-R-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \va.ʁja.bi.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “viabilité” - see the side-by-side comparison. variabilité vs viabilité
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.