magnétique
\ma.ɲe.tik\
The verdict
“magnétique” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,124
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’aimant, qui a les propriétés de l’aimant, ou qui se rattache à ces propriétés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magnetique · magnétique · French
magnétique · rank #8,124 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,124
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légalement
Nearest frequency peer: légalement (-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 « magnétique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loisir
loisir
91,880 corpus weight
- lumineux
lumineux
91,879 corpus weight
- légalement
légalement
91,878 corpus weight
- magnétique
magnétique
91,877 corpus weight
- Mans
Mans
91,876 corpus weight
- Marx
Marx
91,875 corpus weight
What this shows « magnétique » 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 | magnétique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ɲe.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magnétique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around magnétique (IPA \ma.ɲe.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,124 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for magnétique, with forms such as "amgnétique", "maggnétique", and "magnetique". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "magnifique", "magnétisme", "magnétiques", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is magnétique, spelled M-A-G-N-É-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’aimant, qui a les propriétés de l’aimant, ou qui se rattache à ces propriétés.
- 2Qui a une forte capacité d’attraction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magnétique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’oxyde de fer qui constitue les octaèdres agit sur l'aiguille aimantée ; aussi on lui donne le nom d’oxyde de fer magnétique, ou, par abréviation, de fer magnétique.
Le magnétite (fer-aimant Fe₃O₄) est le corps ferro-magnétique qui se prête le mieux à une étude complète des propriétés magnétiques au dessus de la température de transformation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgnétique
- maggnétique
- magnetique
- magnnétique
- magntéique
- magnéitque
- magnétiqeu
- magnétiqque
- magnétiuqe
- magnétqiue
- magnéttique
- magéntique
- mangétique
- mganétique
- mmagnétique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magnétique - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).