formaté

\fɔʁ.ma.te\

/\fɔʁ.ma.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“formaté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,537. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,537
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de formater.

Corpus desk

Index FR-formate · formaté · French

formaté · rank #48,537 · 11 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,537
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fondèrent

Nearest frequency peer: fondèrent (-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 « formaté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « formaté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

formaté vs forme
57% similar
formaté vs forte
57% similar
formaté vs formée
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for formaté
PropertyValue
Headwordformaté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɔʁ.ma.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,537
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formaté »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).formatése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fondèrent » (#48,536), « fortunée » (#48,538), « fondeurs » (#48,535). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « formaté » est au #48,537. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around formaté (IPA \fɔʁ.ma.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,537 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de formater.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for formaté, with forms such as "fformaté", "fomraté", and "foramté". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "forme", "forte", "formée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 formaté, spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de formater.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • fformaté
  • fomraté
  • foramté
  • formate
  • formatté
  • formaét
  • formmaté
  • formtaé
  • forrmaté
  • fromaté
  • ofrmaté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formaté - 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.

fformaté1fomraté2foramté2formate1formatté1formaét2formmaté1formtaé2
Edit distance from "formaté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "formaté"?
"formaté" is spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fɔʁ.ma.te\.
What does "formaté" mean?
As a verb, "formaté" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de formater.
What words are commonly confused with "formaté"?
"formaté" is commonly confused with "forme", "forte", "formée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "formaté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "formaté" is \fɔʁ.ma.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "formaté" come from?
"formaté" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "formaté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fouiner#48,539francos#48,540freezer#48,543furtive#48,544

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Geronimo11 variantsglaçant11 variantsexsangue11 variantsexposera11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list