émaux
\e.mo\
The verdict
“émaux” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,274. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,274
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de émail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emaux · émaux · French
émaux · rank #44,274 · 6 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,274
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élévateur
Nearest frequency peer: élévateur (-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 « émaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écolière
écolière
55,730 corpus weight
- écria
écria
55,729 corpus weight
- élévateur
élévateur
55,728 corpus weight
- émaux
émaux
55,727 corpus weight
- éminente
éminente
55,726 corpus weight
- étalonnage
étalonnage
55,725 corpus weight
What this shows « émaux » 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 | émaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around émaux (IPA \e.mo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,274 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for émaux, with forms such as "méaux", "éamux", and "émauxx". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ému", "émue", "étau", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is émaux, spelled É-M-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de émail.
- 2Nom donné aux couleurs sur les blasons, excepté les couleurs jaune (or) et blanche (argent) qui sont des métaux héraldiques et non des émaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how émaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son séjour se termina à Beauté-sur-Marne ; Charles IV en fut si enchanté qu’il s’y déclara guéri de sa goutte ; on y fit de somptueux échanges de cadeaux : coupes d’or garnies de pierreries et d’émaux champlevés, flacons, aiguières, hanaps d’or et gobelets ; jusqu’au moment où, à la veille de se faire leurs adieux, l’empereur donne au roi un rubis et un d…
Émaux et Camées
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- méaux
- éamux
- émauxx
- émaxu
- émmaux
- émuax
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émaux - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).