ammoniac
\a.mɔ.njak\
The verdict
“ammoniac” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,342
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé chimique de formule NH₃.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ammoniac · ammoniac · French
ammoniac · rank #31,342 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,342
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Analysis
Nearest frequency peer: Analysis (+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 « ammoniac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alimentant
alimentant
68,662 corpus weight
- allient
allient
68,661 corpus weight
- ammoniac
ammoniac
68,659 corpus weight
- Analysis
Analysis
68,658 corpus weight
- Anselme
Anselme
68,657 corpus weight
- anthropolog…
anthropologique
68,656 corpus weight
What this shows « ammoniac » 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 | ammoniac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɔ.njak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ammoniac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ammoniac (IPA \a.mɔ.njak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,342 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composé chimique de formule NH₃.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ammoniac, with forms such as "ammnoiac", "ammoinac", and "ammonaic". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ammonium", "ammoniaque", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ammoniac, spelled A-M-M-O-N-I-A-C.
Definition
- 1Composé chimique de formule NH₃.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ammoniac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les amides sont obtenues en partant de l’ammoniac par substitution à l’hydrogène de AzH₃, d’un radical acide (acétyle, etc.).
Les chlores et les ammoniacs sont sans aucun doute les délégués d’une sorte de feu total, sauveur mais aveugle ; les poudres sont au contraire sélectives, elles poussent, conduisent la saleté à travers la trame de l’objet, elles ont une fonction de police, non de guerre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammnoiac
- ammoinac
- ammonaic
- ammoniacc
- ammonica
- ammonniac
- amomniac
- amoniac
- mamoniac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ammoniac - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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