mamelon
\mam.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“mamelon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,542
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protubérance située au centre de la mamelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mamelon · mamelon · French
mamelon · rank #43,542 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,542
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malfaiteur
Nearest frequency peer: malfaiteur (-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 « mamelon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Macédoniens
Macédoniens
56,462 corpus weight
- maigri
maigri
56,461 corpus weight
- malfaiteur
malfaiteur
56,460 corpus weight
- mamelon
mamelon
56,459 corpus weight
- mamy
mamy
56,458 corpus weight
- manqua
manqua
56,457 corpus weight
What this shows « mamelon » 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 | mamelon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mam.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mamelon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mamelon (IPA \mam.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,542 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mamelon, with forms such as "ammelon", "maemlon", and "mamellon". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Marlon", "matelot", "mamelons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mamelon, spelled M-A-M-E-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Protubérance située au centre de la mamelle.
- 2Éminence arrondie.
- 3Sommet ou colline de forme arrondie, non allongée.
- 4Tube fileté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mamelon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lors de l’allaitement, l’enfant doit prendre dans sa bouche la totalité de l’aréole du sein, la zone foncée qui entoure le mamelon, il faut bien hydrater les seins mais éviter de mettre la crème hydratante sur le mamelon, car l’enfant ne reconnaîtra plus son odeur.
Iᵉʳ Cas, suivi par le docteur Penrose. — Kyste du sein droit sur le point de s'ulcérer; sein peu volumineux et rempli par le kyste et une masse squirrheuse qui se trouvait plus spécialement au-dessous du mamelon, lequel était lui-même retiré en dedans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammelon
- maemlon
- mamellon
- mamelno
- mamelonn
- mameoln
- mamleon
- mammelon
- mmaelon
- mmamelon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mamelon - 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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