Argenteuil
\aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tœj\
The verdict
“Argenteuil” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,241. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,241
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Val-d’Oise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argenteuil · Argenteuil · French
Argenteuil · rank #21,241 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,241
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appât
Nearest frequency peer: appât (-2 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 « Argenteuil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Anita
Anita
78,764 corpus weight
- apanage
apanage
78,763 corpus weight
- appât
appât
78,762 corpus weight
- Argenteuil
Argenteuil
78,760 corpus weight
- associative
associative
78,758 corpus weight
- assurées
assurées
78,757 corpus weight
What this shows « Argenteuil » 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 | Argenteuil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tœj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Argenteuil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Argenteuil (IPA \aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tœj\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,241 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Argenteuil, with forms such as "agrenteuil", "aregnteuil", and "argenetuil". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "argenterie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Argenteuil, spelled A-R-G-E-N-T-E-U-I-L.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Val-d’Oise.
- 2Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) québécoise ^([2]).
- 3Circonscription électorale provinciale québécoise ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Argenteuil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À gauche, les marquises des halles couvertes ouvraient leurs porches géants, aux vitrages enfumés, celle des grandes lignes, immense, où l’œil plongeait, et que les bâtiments de la poste et de la bouillotterie séparaient des autres, plus petites, celles d’Argenteuil, de Versailles et de la Ceinture ; tandis que le pont de l’Europe, à droite, coupait de so…
Une usine de relevage des eaux était toutefois nécessaire sur ce long trajet pour permettre aux eaux le franchissement de la Seine et des collines d’Argenteuil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrenteuil
- aregnteuil
- argenetuil
- argennteuil
- argenteiul
- argenteuill
- argenteuli
- argentteuil
- argentueil
- argetneuil
- arggenteuil
- argneteuil
- arrgenteuil
- ragenteuil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Argenteuil - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).