dynamite
\di.na.mit\
The verdict
“dynamite” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,120
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance explosive, à base de nitroglycérine, liquide lui-même extrêmement explosif, et qui n’est devenu maniable qu’absorbé par un corps inerte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dynamite · dynamite · French
dynamite · rank #20,120 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,120
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déboires
Nearest frequency peer: déboires (+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 « dynamite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- donations
donations
79,884 corpus weight
- dortoir
dortoir
79,883 corpus weight
- dynamite
dynamite
79,881 corpus weight
- déboires
déboires
79,880 corpus weight
- défilent
défilent
79,879 corpus weight
- déguisée
déguisée
79,878 corpus weight
What this shows « dynamite » 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 | dynamite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.na.mit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dynamite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around dynamite (IPA \di.na.mit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,120 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Substance explosive, à base de nitroglycérine, liquide lui-même extrêmement explosif, et qui n’est devenu maniable qu’absorbé par un corps inerte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dynamite, with forms such as "ddynamite", "dnyamite", and "dyanmite". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "dynamic", "dynamics", "dynamique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 dynamite, spelled D-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Substance explosive, à base de nitroglycérine, liquide lui-même extrêmement explosif, et qui n’est devenu maniable qu’absorbé par un corps inerte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dynamite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bolley, Kündt et Pestalozzi, qui furent chargés de rechercher les précautions à prendre pour transporter sur les chemins de fer suisses la dynamite fabriquée par M. Nobel.
On attaquerait la roche à la masse afin d’épargner les burins, car il n’y avait pas de forge pour les recharger. Cette façon de procéder ménagerait également la dynamite, car il fallait aussi craindre le pouillant qui asphyxie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddynamite
- dnyamite
- dyanmite
- dynaimte
- dynamiet
- dynamitte
- dynammite
- dynamtie
- dynmaite
- dynnamite
- dyynamite
- ydnamite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dynamite - 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).