matador
\ma.ta.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“matador” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,044. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,044
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui, dans les corridas, met l’animal à mort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matador · matador · French
matador · rank #36,044 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,044
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marde
Nearest frequency peer: marde (-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 « matador »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maquillée
maquillée
63,960 corpus weight
- marcia
marcia
63,959 corpus weight
- marde
marde
63,958 corpus weight
- matador
matador
63,957 corpus weight
- mem
mem
63,956 corpus weight
- mentionnons
mentionnons
63,955 corpus weight
What this shows « matador » 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 | matador |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ta.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « matador »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around matador (IPA \ma.ta.dɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,044 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for matador, with forms such as "amtador", "maatdor", and "mataddor". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Mamadou", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is matador, spelled M-A-T-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, dans les corridas, met l’animal à mort.
- 2Dans le jeu de l’hombre, désigne les cartes supérieures.
- 3Jeu de dominos où l’on doit toujours faire sept.
- 4Outil utilisé en abattoir pour étourdir les animaux avant la mise à mort par saignée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how matador appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cholo ! un matador ! un homme qui boit de l’eau-de-vie et qui mange des oignons crus !
On n’emploie guère en Espagne le mot matador pour désigner celui qui tue le taureau, on l’appelle espada (épée), ce qui est plus noble et a plus de caractère ; l’on ne dit pas non plus toreador, mais bien torero. Je donne, en passant, cet utile renseignement à ceux qui font de la couleur locale dans les romances et dans les opéras-comiques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtador
- maatdor
- mataddor
- matadorr
- matadro
- mataodr
- matdaor
- mattador
- mmatador
- mtaador
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matador - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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