Mantoue
\mɑ̃.tu\
The verdict
“Mantoue” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,432. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,432
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la région de la Lombardie en Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mantoue · Mantoue · French
Mantoue · rank #29,432 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,432
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marjorie
Nearest frequency peer: Marjorie (+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 « Mantoue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- macarons
macarons
70,573 corpus weight
- mala
mala
70,571 corpus weight
- Mantoue
Mantoue
70,569 corpus weight
- Marjorie
Marjorie
70,568 corpus weight
- marqua
marqua
70,567 corpus weight
- martien
martien
70,566 corpus weight
What this shows « Mantoue » 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 | Mantoue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.tu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mantoue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Mantoue (IPA \mɑ̃.tu\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,432 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mantoue, with forms such as "amntoue", "manntoue", and "manotue". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "matou", "mante", "manque", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Mantoue, spelled M-A-N-T-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la région de la Lombardie en Italie.
- 2Province autour de cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mantoue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque notre bon duc, le père de celui d’aujourd’hui, m’envoya à Mantoue et à Albissola, afin d’étudier les émaux, les faïences et les industries d’art, que depuis nous plantâmes dans la terre de chez nous, je n’ai pas ménagé les routes ni la semelle de mes pieds.
Entre ces trois passions absolues, l’une appuyée sur l’insolence de l’argent, l’autre sur le droit de possession, la dernière sur la jeunesse, la force, la fortune et la primauté, madame Marneffe resta calme et l’esprit libre, comme le fut le général Bonaparte, lorsqu’au siège de Mantoue il eut à répondre à deux armées en voulant continuer le blocus de la…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amntoue
- manntoue
- manotue
- mantoeu
- manttoue
- mantuoe
- matnoue
- mmantoue
- mnatoue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mantoue - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).