magot
\ma.ɡo\
The verdict
“magot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,999
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gros singe sans queue, du genre des macaques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magot · magot · French
magot · rank #42,999 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,999
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magistère
Nearest frequency peer: magistère (-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 « magot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- maladif
maladif
57,000 corpus weight
What this shows « magot » 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 | magot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around magot (IPA \ma.ɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,999 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for magot, with forms such as "amgot", "maggot", and "magott". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mot", "mat", "matt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 magot, spelled M-A-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Gros singe sans queue, du genre des macaques.
- 2Homme laid et court ; nabot.
- 3Figure grotesque de porcelaine, de pierre, etc., appelée aussi pagode.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant la curiosité est toujours en éveil pour découvrir comment ce singe, de l'espèce des magots, arriva sur le rocher de Gibraltar, comment il vit et trouve sa nourriture dans un endroit si dénué de forêts et même de végétation, exposé à tout le bruit du commerce et aux grondements du canon.
Les magots du Maroc (ou macaques berbères), qui vivent dans le parc, attirent également les visiteurs.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgot
- maggot
- magott
- magto
- maogt
- mgaot
- mmagot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magot - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).