mammifère
\ma.mi.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“mammifère” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,611. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,611
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal qui porte des mamelles pour allaiter ses petits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mammifere · mammifère · French
mammifère · rank #34,611 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,611
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mam
Nearest frequency peer: mam (-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 « mammifère »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malheureuses
malheureuses
65,393 corpus weight
- maltraiter
maltraiter
65,392 corpus weight
- mam
mam
65,391 corpus weight
- mammifère
mammifère
65,390 corpus weight
- mangeons
mangeons
65,389 corpus weight
- mantra
mantra
65,388 corpus weight
What this shows « mammifère » 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 | mammifère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.mi.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mammifère »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mammifère (IPA \ma.mi.fɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,611 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mammifère, with forms such as "ammmifère", "mamifère", and "mamimfère". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "mammifères", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mammifère, spelled M-A-M-M-I-F-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Animal qui porte des mamelles pour allaiter ses petits.
- 2Animal qui porte des mamelles pour allaiter ses petits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mammifère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux mammifères, tous deux de l’ordre des rongeurs, tous deux remarquables par leur fécondité, le rat et le lapin, profitèrent de cette absence de l’homme, et se disputèrent la possession de ces roches abandonnées.
Nul autre pays au monde n’abrite davantage de mammifères. Quelques-unes des espèces les plus emblématiques, comme le jaguar et le loup à crinière, sont presque impossibles à apercevoir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammmifère
- mamifère
- mamimfère
- mammfière
- mammifere
- mammiffère
- mammifrèe
- mammifèer
- mammifèrre
- mammièfre
- mmamifère
- mmammifère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mammifère - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).