magouille
\ma.ɡuj\
The verdict
“magouille” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,906
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action douteuse ou malhonnête voire illicite ou illégale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magouille · magouille · French
magouille · rank #37,906 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,906
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magasine
Nearest frequency peer: magasine (-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 « magouille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- macaron
macaron
62,098 corpus weight
- magasine
magasine
62,096 corpus weight
- magouille
magouille
62,095 corpus weight
- maintenez
maintenez
62,094 corpus weight
- mandature
mandature
62,093 corpus weight
- mangera
mangera
62,092 corpus weight
What this shows « magouille » 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 | magouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɡuj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magouille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around magouille (IPA \ma.ɡuj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,906 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for magouille, with forms such as "amgouille", "maggouille", and "magoiulle". 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, "mouillé", "maquillé", "magouilles", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is magouille, spelled M-A-G-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Action douteuse ou malhonnête voire illicite ou illégale.
- 2Trafic non déclaré de magot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les magouilles électorales.
- La magouille, je peux plus. Je veux faire honnêtement un métier honnête. - Tu veux quitter la police ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgouille
- maggouille
- magoiulle
- magouile
- magouilel
- magoulile
- maguoille
- maoguille
- mgaouille
- mmagouille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magouille - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).