45% of the French tested (2 million) do not master the basic spelling rules , compared with 51% five years ago. The barometer of the Voltaire project , unveiled on Thursday, June 11, 2015, shows that we are less and less good at spelling .

So who's the fault? In SMS language ? Not necessarily. For Pascal Hostachy , co-founder of the Voltaire project and asked about France Info : "Young people are reading a lot today, even if it's a SMS language. It remains a good sign for future practices. "

Another observation of this study on the French and spelling , and more encouraging this time, the French improve their mastery of spelling rules as they age.

Last revelation of this study: women are better spelled than men. They would pronounce more than 20,000 words a day while these gentlemen capped at 7000. Why this gap? Women usually have more literary trades ... And express themselves more!

All the French, from college to salaried, are called upon to test their spelling on the platform of the Voltaire project .