espéranto
\ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃.to\
The verdict
“espéranto” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,925
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue construite internationale la plus répandue, amorcée par Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof dans le but de résoudre les problèmes de communication entre les peuples.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esperanto · espéranto · French
espéranto · rank #43,925 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,925
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ethnologue
Nearest frequency peer: ethnologue (+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 « espéranto »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enrôlement
enrôlement
56,080 corpus weight
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneurial
56,079 corpus weight
- entériner
entériner
56,078 corpus weight
- espéranto
espéranto
56,076 corpus weight
- ethnologue
ethnologue
56,075 corpus weight
- eugénisme
eugénisme
56,073 corpus weight
What this shows « espéranto » 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 | espéranto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃.to\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espéranto »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around espéranto (IPA \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,925 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for espéranto, with forms such as "epséranto", "esperanto", and "esppéranto". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "espèrent", "esperanza", "espérant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is espéranto, spelled E-S-P-É-R-A-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1Langue construite internationale la plus répandue, amorcée par Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof dans le but de résoudre les problèmes de communication entre les peuples.
- 2Peut désigner toute technique permettant ou promettant de faciliter les échanges entre des entités qui se comprennent difficilement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espéranto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme l’écrivait en 1889 Léopold Eistein, un volapükiste allemand passé à l’Esperanto dès l’apparition de cette langue, le progrès de l’humanité est jalonné par sept inventions qui devraient être considérées comme les sept merveilles du Monde, et qui sont : écrire, imprimer, sténographier, […].
Sigismond du Ferrus, après avoir cru à l’espéranto, à l’Atlantide, au grand sympathique, au tunnel sous la Manche, au Masque de Fer, à la divination par les nombres, au lavage des sables aurifères de l’Ariège et au reboisement du Sahara, croyait maintenant à la photographie en couleurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epséranto
- esperanto
- esppéranto
- espréanto
- espéarnto
- espérannto
- espéranot
- espérantto
- espératno
- espérnato
- espérranto
- esspéranto
- esépranto
- sepéranto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espéranto - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).