armagnac
\aʁ.ma.ɲak\
The verdict
“armagnac” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,964
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau-de-vie très renommée de couleur jaune d’or, tirée de certains vins blancs du terroir d’Armagnac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-armagnac · armagnac · French
armagnac · rank #26,964 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,964
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arguant
Nearest frequency peer: arguant (-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 « armagnac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- appliquait
appliquait
73,040 corpus weight
- apprise
apprise
73,039 corpus weight
- arguant
arguant
73,038 corpus weight
- armagnac
armagnac
73,037 corpus weight
- arrondis
arrondis
73,036 corpus weight
- atténuation
atténuation
73,035 corpus weight
What this shows « armagnac » 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 | armagnac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ma.ɲak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « armagnac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around armagnac (IPA \aʁ.ma.ɲak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,964 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Eau-de-vie très renommée de couleur jaune d’or, tirée de certains vins blancs du terroir d’Armagnac.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for armagnac, with forms such as "amragnac", "aramgnac", and "armaganc". 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, "Artagnan", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 armagnac, spelled A-R-M-A-G-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Eau-de-vie très renommée de couleur jaune d’or, tirée de certains vins blancs du terroir d’Armagnac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how armagnac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dégustation d’un cognac, d’un armagnac ou d’une autre eau-de-vie suit les principes généraux de celle des vins.
Monsieur Daste, flatté, appuya son menton sur sa cravate, lissa ses cheveux sur la tempe en passant la main par-desus son oreille et but coquettement une gorgée d’armagnac, qu’il avala de travers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amragnac
- aramgnac
- armaganc
- armaggnac
- armagnacc
- armagnca
- armagnnac
- armangac
- armganac
- armmagnac
- arrmagnac
- ramagnac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of armagnac - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).