admin

\ad.min\

/\ad.min\/ noun

The verdict

“admin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,729. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,729
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Administrateur, administratrice.

Corpus desk

Index FR-admin · admin · French

admin · rank #19,729 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,729
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH activiste

Nearest frequency peer: activiste (-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 « admin »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « admin » 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).

admin vs ami
60% similar
admin vs ADN
0% similar
admin vs afin
60% similar

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

Key facts for admin
PropertyValue
Headwordadmin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ad.min\
Letters5
Frequency rank#19,729
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « admin »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).adminse 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 « activiste » (#19,728), « adressées » (#19,730), « acidité » (#19,727). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « admin » est au #19,729. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around admin (IPA \ad.min\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,729 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Administrateur, administratrice.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for admin, with forms such as "addmin", "adimn", and "adminn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ami", "ADN", "afin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 admin, spelled A-D-M-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Administrateur, administratrice.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addmin
  • adimn
  • adminn
  • admmin
  • admni
  • amdin
  • damin

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of admin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

addmin1adimn2adminn1admmin1admni2amdin2damin2
Edit distance from "admin"

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 "admin"?
"admin" is spelled A-D-M-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.min\.
What does "admin" mean?
As a noun, "admin" means: Administrateur, administratrice.
What words are commonly confused with "admin"?
"admin" is commonly confused with "ami", "ADN", "afin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "admin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "admin" is \ad.min\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "admin" come from?
"admin" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list