Maginot
\ma.ʒi.no\
The verdict
“Maginot” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,997
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu pour André Maginot (1877-1932).
Corpus desk
Index FR-maginot · Maginot · French
Maginot · rank #42,997 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,997
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maga
Nearest frequency peer: maga (-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 « Maginot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Madrilènes
Madrilènes
57,006 corpus weight
- maga
maga
57,005 corpus weight
- Maginot
Maginot
57,004 corpus weight
- magistère
magistère
57,003 corpus weight
- magot
magot
57,002 corpus weight
- maintienne
maintienne
57,001 corpus weight
What this shows « Maginot » 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 | Maginot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒi.no\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maginot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Maginot (IPA \ma.ʒi.no\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,997 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu pour André Maginot (1877-1932).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maginot, with forms such as "amginot", "magginot", and "maginnot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "magot", "magnat", "marino", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Maginot, spelled M-A-G-I-N-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu pour André Maginot (1877-1932).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maginot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La France, comme l’Empire romain qui avait construit un limes pour se protéger des incursions barbares, pensait vivre et s’épanouir en toute tranquillité à l’abri de la ligne Maginot.
Le gouvernement décida la construction d’une puissante ligne fortifiée de la frontière suisse à Montmédy. Les travaux commencèrent en 1927. Cette longue fortification prit le nom de Maginot, ministre de la Guerre, grand mutilé de guerre. Mais pourquoi s’arrêterait-elle à Montmédy au lieu d’aller jusqu’à la mer du Nord ? Pourquoi la Belgique, à qui nous ét…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amginot
- magginot
- maginnot
- maginott
- maginto
- magiont
- magniot
- maignot
- mgainot
- mmaginot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maginot - 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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).