martel
\maʁ.tɛl\
The verdict
“martel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,728
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de marteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-martel · martel · French
martel · rank #14,728 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,728
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marxiste
Nearest frequency peer: marxiste (+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 « martel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mangeant
mangeant
85,276 corpus weight
- manufacture
manufacture
85,275 corpus weight
- martel
martel
85,273 corpus weight
- marxiste
marxiste
85,272 corpus weight
- mason
mason
85,271 corpus weight
- matos
matos
85,270 corpus weight
What this shows « martel » 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 | martel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « martel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around martel (IPA \maʁ.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,728 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de marteau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for martel, with forms such as "amrtel", "maretl", and "marrtel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mate", "morte", "mater", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 martel, spelled M-A-R-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Variante de marteau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how martel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la quinzième ligne, j'allais m’assoupir, quand un minuscule martel de métal piqueta la sonnette aiguë.
Sur le carré du milieu, les armes de la ville étaient représentées au moyen d’artifices floraux et végétaux et M. Abel les redéchiffra mentalement au passage : « Parti de gueules et de sinople aux trois martels d’argent, le chef cousu de France ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrtel
- maretl
- marrtel
- martell
- martle
- marttel
- matrel
- mmartel
- mratel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of martel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).