Machiavel
\ma.kja.vɛl\
The verdict
“Machiavel” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,768. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,768
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nicolas Machiavel, publiciste florentin du XVIᵉ siècle qui fit la théorie des procédés de violence et de tyrannie usités par les tyrans de la Renaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machiavel · Machiavel · French
Machiavel · rank #33,768 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,768
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légionnaire
Nearest frequency peer: légionnaire (-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 « Machiavel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lyrisme
lyrisme
66,235 corpus weight
- légionnaire
légionnaire
66,234 corpus weight
- Machiavel
Machiavel
66,233 corpus weight
- madre
madre
66,232 corpus weight
- maintenait
maintenait
66,231 corpus weight
- majorités
majorités
66,230 corpus weight
What this shows « Machiavel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Machiavel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.kja.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Machiavel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Machiavel (IPA \ma.kja.vɛl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,768 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nicolas Machiavel, publiciste florentin du XVIᵉ siècle qui fit la théorie des procédés de violence et de tyrannie usités par les tyrans de la Renaissance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Machiavel, with forms such as "amchiavel", "macchiavel", and "machaivel". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Machiavel, spelled M-A-C-H-I-A-V-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nicolas Machiavel, publiciste florentin du XVIᵉ siècle qui fit la théorie des procédés de violence et de tyrannie usités par les tyrans de la Renaissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Machiavel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nom de Grand n’appartient ici à personne, ô Machiavel ! Mais je suis celui que vous cherchez.
Ô Machiavel ! tes pas retentissent encore Dans les sentiers déserts de San Casciano.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amchiavel
- macchiavel
- machaivel
- machhiavel
- machiaevl
- machiavell
- machiavle
- machiavvel
- machivael
- macihavel
- mahciavel
- mcahiavel
- mmachiavel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Machiavel - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).