fontainebleau
\fɔ̃.tɛ.nə.blo\
The verdict
“fontainebleau” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,675. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,675
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de chasselas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fontainebleau · fontainebleau · French
fontainebleau · rank #14,675 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,675
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondant
Nearest frequency peer: fondant (-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 « fontainebleau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- financée
financée
85,329 corpus weight
- finement
finement
85,328 corpus weight
- fondant
fondant
85,327 corpus weight
- fontaineble…
fontainebleau
85,326 corpus weight
- forestiers
forestiers
85,325 corpus weight
- foy
foy
85,324 corpus weight
What this shows « fontainebleau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fontainebleau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.tɛ.nə.blo\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #14,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fontainebleau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around fontainebleau (IPA \fɔ̃.tɛ.nə.blo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,675 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for fontainebleau, with forms such as "ffontainebleau", "fnotainebleau", and "fonatinebleau". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fontainebleau, spelled F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-B-L-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Variété de chasselas.
- 2Dessert à base de crème fouettée, de fromage blanc et de crème fraîche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fontainebleau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Glace de lait, mousse de lait fraîche comme un fontainebleau, mais surtout peau de lait, l’une des obsessions du chef.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffontainebleau
- fnotainebleau
- fonatinebleau
- fonntainebleau
- fontaienbleau
- fontainbeleau
- fontainebbleau
- fontainebelau
- fontaineblaeu
- fontainebleua
- fontaineblleau
- fontainelbeau
- fontainnebleau
- fontaniebleau
- fontianebleau
- fonttainebleau
- fotnainebleau
- ofntainebleau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fontainebleau - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fontainebleau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).