dynamo
\di.na.mo\
The verdict
“dynamo” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,917
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Machine à courant continu fonctionnant en générateur électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dynamo · dynamo · French
dynamo · rank #21,917 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,917
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dorian
Nearest frequency peer: Dorian (-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 « dynamo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- divergent
divergent
78,087 corpus weight
- divulguer
divulguer
78,086 corpus weight
- Dorian
Dorian
78,085 corpus weight
- dynamo
dynamo
78,084 corpus weight
- débarrasse
débarrasse
78,083 corpus weight
- déchirure
déchirure
78,082 corpus weight
What this shows « dynamo » 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 | dynamo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.na.mo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dynamo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dynamo (IPA \di.na.mo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,917 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dynamo, with forms such as "ddynamo", "dnyamo", and "dyanmo". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dinamo", "dynamic", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dynamo, spelled D-Y-N-A-M-O.
Definition
- 1Machine à courant continu fonctionnant en générateur électrique.
- 2Petit alternateur fixé à une roue de bicyclette produisant du courant alternatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dynamo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fallut passer la première nuit sans feu et sans lumière. Les moteurs qui alimentaient les dynamos avaient été mis en pièces, et personne ne possédait d’allumettes ; […].
La machine est commandée soit par une courroie, soit par une dynamo directement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddynamo
- dnyamo
- dyanmo
- dynammo
- dynaom
- dynmao
- dynnamo
- dyynamo
- ydnamo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dynamo - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).