informatique
\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.tik\
The verdict
“informatique” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,180
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science du traitement automatique de l’information.
Corpus desk
Index FR-informatique · informatique · French
informatique · rank #2,180 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,180
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH humour
Nearest frequency peer: humour (-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 « informatique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- haine
haine
97,824 corpus weight
- heureuse
heureuse
97,823 corpus weight
- humour
humour
97,822 corpus weight
- informatique
informatique
97,821 corpus weight
- lesquelles
lesquelles
97,819 corpus weight
- légende
légende
97,818 corpus weight
What this shows « informatique » 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 | informatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.tik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #2,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « informatique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around informatique (IPA \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.tik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,180 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Science du traitement automatique de l’information.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for informatique, with forms such as "ifnormatique", "infformatique", and "infomratique". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "informatisé", "informatiques", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is informatique, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Science du traitement automatique de l’information.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how informatique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'analyse du passé récent montre une augmentation régulière de la sinistralité en valeur et sans doute aussi, de manière moindre, en pourcentage du PIB. Si le nombre d'accidents augmente, c'est essentiellement dû à la croissance rapide de l’informatique distribuée.
Les conditions sont donc réunies pour que la convergence entre l’informatique et la téléphonie se réalise sous la forme d’« ordiphones » mobiles très multifonctionnels, véritables bureaux de poche. Notebooks, notepads, assistants personnels numériques, livres électroniques... les noms sont encore flottants, et ils sous-évaluent, selon un habitus culturel…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnormatique
- infformatique
- infomratique
- inforamtique
- informaitque
- informatiqeu
- informatiqque
- informatiuqe
- informatqiue
- informattique
- informmatique
- informtaique
- inforrmatique
- infromatique
- innformatique
- inofrmatique
- niformatique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of informatique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "informatique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).