calomnie
\ka.lɔm.ni\
The verdict
“calomnie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,870
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Critique injustifiée, inventée avec le dessein de nuire à la réputation ou à l’honneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calomnie · calomnie · French
calomnie · rank #28,870 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,870
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénévolement
Nearest frequency peer: bénévolement (-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 « calomnie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- byzantine
byzantine
71,134 corpus weight
- bénite
bénite
71,133 corpus weight
- bénévolement
bénévolement
71,132 corpus weight
- calomnie
calomnie
71,131 corpus weight
- capucins
capucins
71,129 corpus weight
- caritatives
caritatives
71,128 corpus weight
What this shows « calomnie » 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 | calomnie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lɔm.ni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calomnie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around calomnie (IPA \ka.lɔm.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,870 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Critique injustifiée, inventée avec le dessein de nuire à la réputation ou à l’honneur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calomnie, with forms such as "aclomnie", "callomnie", and "calmonie". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "colonie", "Colombie", "calomnies", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 calomnie, spelled C-A-L-O-M-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Critique injustifiée, inventée avec le dessein de nuire à la réputation ou à l’honneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calomnie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, ils ont accueilli trop facilement les calomnies que toute opinion régnante épargne rarement aux opinions indépendantes.
Maintenant la calomnie allait grossir, enfoncer dans le sol ses racines tortueuses, élancer vers le ciel ses rameaux puissants, s'emparer de Charlotte, l'étreindre, l'étouffer, la meurtrir, faire d'elle, du beau lis de la vallée, mélancolique et pur, la risée d'un pays, le misérable et impuissant jouet de toute une population ameutée contre elle.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclomnie
- callomnie
- calmonie
- calomine
- calommnie
- calomnei
- calomnnie
- calonmie
- caolmnie
- ccalomnie
- claomnie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calomnie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).