formater
\fɔʁ.ma.te\
The verdict
“formater” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,660
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Structurer des données ou un support de données selon un format standard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formater · formater · French
formater · rank #49,660 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,660
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluviaux
Nearest frequency peer: fluviaux (-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 « formater »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Finger
Finger
50,345 corpus weight
- fluviaux
fluviaux
50,342 corpus weight
- formater
formater
50,341 corpus weight
- fourniront
fourniront
50,340 corpus weight
- freudienne
freudienne
50,339 corpus weight
- friable
friable
50,338 corpus weight
What this shows « formater » 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 | formater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formater »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around formater (IPA \fɔʁ.ma.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,660 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for formater, with forms such as "fformater", "fomrater", and "foramter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "former", "formats", "Forster", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is formater, spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Structurer des données ou un support de données selon un format standard.
- 2Conformer à une norme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Pour écrire sur une disquette, il faut au préalable la formater pour lui donner un format d’accueil de données : sectoriser ses faces puis - dans le cas d'une disquette FAT - créer le secteur BOOT, les FAT et le répertoire ROOT. Disquette sur Wikipédia.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformater
- fomrater
- foramter
- formaetr
- formaterr
- formatre
- formatter
- formmater
- formtaer
- forrmater
- fromater
- ofrmater
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formater - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "formater", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).