aumônier
\o.mo.nje\
The verdict
“aumônier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,364
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ecclésiastique dont la fonction ordinaire était de distribuer les aumônes de ceux à qui il était attaché, de leur dire la messe, de faire la prière du soir et du matin, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aumonier · aumônier · French
aumônier · rank #20,364 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,364
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 424,905
- PHOTO-FINISH Aubervilliers
Nearest frequency peer: Aubervilliers (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “aumônier”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- astronomes
astronomes
79,640 corpus weight
- attarder
attarder
79,639 corpus weight
- Aubervillie…
Aubervilliers
79,638 corpus weight
- aumônier
aumônier
79,637 corpus weight
- aut
aut
79,636 corpus weight
- avançait
avançait
79,635 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “aumônier” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | aumônier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.mo.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aumônier” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around aumônier (IPA \o.mo.nje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,364 among 424,905 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for aumônier, with forms such as "amuônier", "aummônier", and "aumnôier". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "aumône", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aumônier, spelled A-U-M-Ô-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ecclésiastique dont la fonction ordinaire était de distribuer les aumônes de ceux à qui il était attaché, de leur dire la messe, de faire la prière du soir et du matin, etc.
- 2Ecclésiastique attaché à certains corps, à certains établissements, pour enseigner la religion et les diriger spirituellement.
- 3Ecclésiastique attaché à certains corps, à certains établissements, pour offrir un soutien spirituel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amuônier
- aummônier
- aumnôier
- aumonier
- aumôiner
- aumôneir
- aumônierr
- aumônire
- aumônnier
- auômnier
- uamônier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aumônier - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aumônier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.