marionnette
\ma.ʁjɔ.nɛt\
The verdict
“marionnette” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,763
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figurine que l’on fait bouger avec la main ou par des fils, quelquefois par des ressorts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marionnette · marionnette · French
marionnette · rank #17,763 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,763
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marginal
Nearest frequency peer: marginal (-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 « marionnette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- magnétiques
magnétiques
82,241 corpus weight
- maltraitance
maltraitance
82,240 corpus weight
- marginal
marginal
82,239 corpus weight
- marionnette
marionnette
82,238 corpus weight
- marqueurs
marqueurs
82,237 corpus weight
- Mathias
Mathias
82,236 corpus weight
What this shows « marionnette » 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 | marionnette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁjɔ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #17,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marionnette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around marionnette (IPA \ma.ʁjɔ.nɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,763 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 marionnette, with forms such as "amrionnette", "maironnette", and "marinonette". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "marionnettes", "maisonnette", 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 marionnette, spelled M-A-R-I-O-N-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Figurine que l’on fait bouger avec la main ou par des fils, quelquefois par des ressorts.
- 2Quelqu’un qui est manipulé par quelqu’un d’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marionnette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Artiste, on donne sa propre vie à ses créations ou bien l’on taille des marionnettes et l’on habille des poupées. »
C’est un de nos collaborateurs qui nous donne une séance de marionnettes…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrionnette
- maironnette
- marinonette
- marionentte
- marionette
- marionnete
- marionnetet
- marionntete
- maroinnette
- marrionnette
- mmarionnette
- mraionnette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marionnette - 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 "marionnette", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).