marmotte
\maʁ.mɔt\
The verdict
“marmotte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,699
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit quadrupède rongeur, qui vit dans les montagnes et qui hiverne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marmotte · marmotte · French
marmotte · rank #30,699 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,699
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mares
Nearest frequency peer: mares (-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 « marmotte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manquantes
manquantes
69,304 corpus weight
- mares
mares
69,303 corpus weight
- marmotte
marmotte
69,302 corpus weight
- matrimonial
matrimonial
69,301 corpus weight
- Maureen
Maureen
69,300 corpus weight
- McCoy
McCoy
69,299 corpus weight
What this shows « marmotte » 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 | marmotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.mɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marmotte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around marmotte (IPA \maʁ.mɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,699 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for marmotte, with forms such as "amrmotte", "mamrotte", and "marmmotte". 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, "Mayotte", "mascotte", "marmite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marmotte, spelled M-A-R-M-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit quadrupède rongeur, qui vit dans les montagnes et qui hiverne.
- 2Sorte de pointe de tissu s’enroulant autour de la tête, en usage dans certaines régions.
- 3Sorte de malle en plusieurs parties, ou articulée, servant à séparer les divers éléments de son contenu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marmotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chacun en entrant allait accrocher son instrument à un clou au-dessus de son lit ; celui-ci un violon, celui-là une harpe, un autre une flûte, ou une piva ; ceux qui n’étaient pas musiciens mais simplement montreurs de bêtes fourraient dans une cage leurs marmottes ou leurs cochons de Barbarie.
On sait que le microbe de la peste est un cocco-bacille appartenant au genre Pasteurella, dont les différentes espèces produisent les septicémies hémorragiques des animaux. C’est en effet le cas de la peste, puisque, de ses deux formes, la pneumonie pesteuse est primitivement une septicémie des marmottes, tandis que la peste bubonique est primitivement un…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrmotte
- mamrotte
- marmmotte
- marmote
- marmotet
- marmtote
- maromtte
- marrmotte
- mmarmotte
- mramotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marmotte - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).