martinet
\maʁ.ti.nɛ\
The verdict
“martinet” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,898. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,898
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau à très longues ailes et à pattes très petites, migrateur. Ressemblant à l'hirondelle, il ne lui est en fait pas du tout apparenté génétiquement : il appartient à la famille des apod...
Corpus desk
Index FR-martinet · martinet · French
martinet · rank #32,898 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,898
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Martigues
Nearest frequency peer: Martigues (-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 « martinet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manny
manny
67,106 corpus weight
- Martigues
Martigues
67,104 corpus weight
- martinet
martinet
67,103 corpus weight
- maso
maso
67,102 corpus weight
- masseur
masseur
67,101 corpus weight
- Masséna
Masséna
67,100 corpus weight
What this shows « martinet » 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 | martinet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ti.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « martinet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around martinet (IPA \maʁ.ti.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,898 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Espèce d’oiseau à très longues ailes et à pattes très petites, migrateur. Ressemblant à l'hirondelle, il ne lui est en fait pas du tout apparenté génétiquement : il appartient à la famille des apod...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for martinet, with forms such as "amrtinet", "maritnet", and "marrtinet". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "matinée", "Martini", "martins", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is martinet, spelled M-A-R-T-I-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau à très longues ailes et à pattes très petites, migrateur. Ressemblant à l'hirondelle, il ne lui est en fait pas du tout apparenté génétiquement : il appartient à la famille des apodidés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how martinet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Salut, clochers où vient nicher le martinet.
C’est aujourd’hui la propriété d’un vieil ami de celui qui raconte cette histoire, et tout le monde est tellement habitué à son aspect, si terrible qu’il soit, que le premier paysan venu va chercher, l’été, l’ombre de ses hautes murailles sans plus de crainte que les martinets aux grandes ailes noires et aux cris aigus, et les hirondelles aux doux gazouil…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrtinet
- maritnet
- marrtinet
- martient
- martinett
- martinnet
- martinte
- martniet
- marttinet
- matrinet
- mmartinet
- mratinet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of martinet - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).