Android

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The verdict

“Android” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,205. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,205
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’un système d’exploitation pour téléphones portables.

Corpus desk

Index FR-android · Android · French

Android · rank #4,205 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,205
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amène

Nearest frequency peer: amène (-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 « Android »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Android » 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).

Android vs androïde
63% similar
Android vs Andrei
71% similar
Android vs adroit
57% similar

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

Key facts for Android
PropertyValue
HeadwordAndroid
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,205
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Android »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Androidse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « amène » (#4,204), « annuelle » (#4,206), « Alternative » (#4,203). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Android » est au #4,205. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Android, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,205 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom d’un système d’exploitation pour téléphones portables.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Android, with forms such as "adnroid", "anddroid", and "andorid". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "androïde", "Andrei", "adroit", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Android, spelled A-N-D-R-O-I-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom d’un système d’exploitation pour téléphones portables.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Android appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Efficacité également sur les performances de l’appareil, lesté du processeur Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (le plus puissant du moment pour les smartphones Android).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • adnroid
  • anddroid
  • andorid
  • andriod
  • androdi
  • androidd
  • andrroid
  • anndroid
  • anrdoid
  • nadroid

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

adnroid2anddroid1andorid2andriod2androdi2androidd1andrroid1anndroid1
Edit distance from "Android"

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 "Android"?
"Android" is spelled A-N-D-R-O-I-D.
What does "Android" mean?
As a proper noun, "Android" means: Nom d’un système d’exploitation pour téléphones portables.
What words are commonly confused with "Android"?
"Android" is commonly confused with "androïde", "Andrei", "adroit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Android" come from?
"Android" 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 "Android", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

éthique#4,202windows#4,199crédits#4,224scrutin#4,186

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

attendez10 variantsdégâts10 variantsexercer10 variantsobserve10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list