mantra
\mɑ̃.tʁa\
The verdict
“mantra” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,613
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formule sacrée, courte prière ou incantation répétée, dans l’hindouisme, le jaïnisme, le sikhisme et le bouddhisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mantra · mantra · French
mantra · rank #34,613 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,613
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mangeons
Nearest frequency peer: mangeons (-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 « mantra »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mam
mam
65,391 corpus weight
- mammifère
mammifère
65,390 corpus weight
- mangeons
mangeons
65,389 corpus weight
- mantra
mantra
65,388 corpus weight
- manufacturés
manufacturés
65,387 corpus weight
- Maradona
Maradona
65,386 corpus weight
What this shows « mantra » 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 | mantra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mantra »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mantra (IPA \mɑ̃.tʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,613 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 mantra, with forms such as "amntra", "manntra", and "manrta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mara", "mata", "marta", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mantra, spelled M-A-N-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Formule sacrée, courte prière ou incantation répétée, dans l’hindouisme, le jaïnisme, le sikhisme et le bouddhisme.
- 2Phrase ou idée que l'on répète constamment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mantra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En dehors du fait qu’un mantra sera d’autant plus efficace que le pratiquant sera un bon méditant concentrée et attentif aux visualisations, le mantra est efficace en lui-même pour quatre raisons …
Nous avons tous entendu parler de l’omniprésent moulin à prière au Tibet. Il suffit de le faire tourner en récitant le mantra (une prière) approprié pour attirer la bienveillance de divinités sur soi, purifier son karma (ses actions) et accumuler du mérite pour une future réincarnation heureuse.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amntra
- manntra
- manrta
- mantar
- mantrra
- manttra
- matnra
- mmantra
- mnatra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mantra - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).