mamelons
\mam.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“mamelons” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,410
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mamelon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mamelons · mamelons · French
mamelons · rank #38,410 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,410
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mahon
Nearest frequency peer: Mahon (-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 « mamelons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lueurs
lueurs
61,596 corpus weight
- Mahon
Mahon
61,592 corpus weight
- mamelons
mamelons
61,591 corpus weight
- manipulatri…
manipulatrice
61,589 corpus weight
- maquillages
maquillages
61,588 corpus weight
- Mariah
Mariah
61,586 corpus weight
What this shows « mamelons » 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 | mamelons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mam.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mamelons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mamelons (IPA \mam.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,410 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mamelon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mamelons, with forms such as "ammelons", "maemlons", and "mamellons". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "matelots", "mamelon", "maillons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mamelons, spelled M-A-M-E-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mamelon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mamelons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant un joli bac de Mammillaria bombycina aux aisselles soyeuses et aux mamelons renflés, certains cernés de boutons carmin prêts à s’ouvrir, j’ai demandé à Christophorine de bien vouloir m’épouser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammelons
- maemlons
- mamellons
- mamelnos
- mamelonns
- mamelonss
- mamelosn
- mameolns
- mamleons
- mammelons
- mmaelons
- mmamelons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mamelons - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).