manitou
\ma.ni.tu\
The verdict
“manitou” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,571. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,571
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à leur déité, à leur dieu principal par certains peuples amérindiens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manitou · manitou · French
manitou · rank #44,571 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,571
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maniabilité
Nearest frequency peer: maniabilité (-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 « manitou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manchon
manchon
55,434 corpus weight
- Mandchourie
Mandchourie
55,433 corpus weight
- maniabilité
maniabilité
55,431 corpus weight
- manitou
manitou
55,430 corpus weight
- marquises
marquises
55,429 corpus weight
- maudites
maudites
55,426 corpus weight
What this shows « manitou » 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 | manitou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ni.tu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « manitou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around manitou (IPA \ma.ni.tu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,571 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for manitou, with forms such as "amnitou", "maintou", and "maniotu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "matou", "Mantoue", "monitor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is manitou, spelled M-A-N-I-T-O-U.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à leur déité, à leur dieu principal par certains peuples amérindiens.
- 2Fétiche qui représente ce dieu.
- 3Personnage important à qui l’on attribue une très grande puissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manitou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Signe qu’aucune position n’est plus assurée à l’heure de ces manœuvres, le grand manitou d’Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry, que l’on pensait pourtant solidement arrimé à son poste de PDG, est écarté par Arnaud Lagardère en ce même printemps 2021.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amnitou
- maintou
- maniotu
- manittou
- manituo
- mannitou
- mantiou
- mmanitou
- mnaitou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manitou - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "manitou", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).