magnat
\maɡ.na\
The verdict
“magnat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,871. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,871
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand du royaume, dans l’ancienne Pologne et l’ancienne Hongrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magnat · magnat · French
magnat · rank #27,871 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,871
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH législateurs
Nearest frequency peer: législateurs (-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 « magnat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lucrative
lucrative
72,133 corpus weight
- Lydie
Lydie
72,132 corpus weight
- législateurs
législateurs
72,131 corpus weight
- magnat
magnat
72,130 corpus weight
- magne
magne
72,129 corpus weight
- mana
mana
72,128 corpus weight
What this shows « magnat » 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 | magnat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maɡ.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magnat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around magnat (IPA \maɡ.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,871 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for magnat, with forms such as "amgnat", "magant", and "maggnat". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "mana", "Magny", "magne", and more, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is magnat, spelled M-A-G-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Grand du royaume, dans l’ancienne Pologne et l’ancienne Hongrie.
- 2Personne dominante ou importante ; VIP.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magnat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais quand tout fut fini, les magnats accoururent des quatre coins de la Pologne, en qualité de sauveurs de la patrie. Les sauveurs sont la plaie des révolutions populaires.
Son crâne rasé de près et ses longues moustaches tombantes donnaient à ce Français du Nord un faux air de magnat hongrois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgnat
- magant
- maggnat
- magnatt
- magnnat
- magnta
- mangat
- mganat
- mmagnat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magnat - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).