masculine
\mas.ky.lin\
The verdict
“masculine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,594
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masculine · masculine · French
masculine · rank #7,594 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,594
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mariés
Nearest frequency peer: mariés (-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 « masculine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manif
manif
92,410 corpus weight
- manœuvre
manœuvre
92,409 corpus weight
- mariés
mariés
92,408 corpus weight
- masculine
masculine
92,407 corpus weight
- mentalité
mentalité
92,406 corpus weight
- Mercedes
Mercedes
92,405 corpus weight
What this shows « masculine » 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 | masculine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mas.ky.lin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « masculine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around masculine (IPA \mas.ky.lin\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,594 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for masculine, with forms such as "amsculine", "macsuline", and "mascculine". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "masculins", "masculines", "masculinité", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is masculine, spelled M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how masculine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une seule usine, employant une vingtaine d’ouvriers, existe à Vatan et la main-d’œuvre masculine, hormis celle du bâtiment, se voit contrainte d’aller travailler dans les villes voisines.
La société masculine avait accepté que les filles fassent leur médecine, mais elle leur interdisait de l'exercer, même avec leur diplôme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amsculine
- macsuline
- mascculine
- mascluine
- mascuilne
- masculien
- masculinne
- masculline
- masculnie
- massculine
- masucline
- mmasculine
- msaculine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masculine - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).