magazine
\ma.ɡa.zin\
The verdict
“magazine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,527. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,527
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Publication périodique, généralement illustrée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magazine · magazine · French
magazine · rank #2,527 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,527
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH locales
Nearest frequency peer: locales (-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 « magazine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- live
live
97,477 corpus weight
- locales
locales
97,475 corpus weight
- magazine
magazine
97,474 corpus weight
- marchés
marchés
97,473 corpus weight
- nulle
nulle
97,472 corpus weight
- oeil
oeil
97,471 corpus weight
What this shows « magazine » 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 | magazine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɡa.zin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magazine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around magazine (IPA \ma.ɡa.zin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,527 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for magazine, with forms such as "amgazine", "maagzine", and "magaizne". 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, "mazarine", "magazines", "margarine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is magazine, spelled M-A-G-A-Z-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Publication périodique, généralement illustrée.
- 2Émission périodique de radio, télévision, sur un sujet déterminé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magazine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les journaux et les magazines qui alimentaient les cerveaux américains (…) devinrent instantanément un feu d’artifice où les illustrations et les titres de colonnes s’enlevaient comme des fusées et éclataient comme des bombes.
J’ai frémi plus d’une fois en lisant dans un magazine féminin la version « métropolitaine » d’une recette créole. On croirait qu’il suffit de mêler lait de coco, tomates et piment pour obtenir un curry ! Il faut aussi du temps, beaucoup de temps.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgazine
- maagzine
- magaizne
- magazien
- magazinne
- magaznie
- magazzine
- maggazine
- magzaine
- mgaazine
- mmagazine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magazine - 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 "magazine", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).