matelot
\ma.tlo\
The verdict
“matelot” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,124
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait partie de l’équipage manœuvrier d’un bâtiment de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matelot · matelot · French
matelot · rank #27,124 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,124
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mata
Nearest frequency peer: mata (-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 « matelot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mangue
mangue
72,880 corpus weight
- manqueront
manqueront
72,879 corpus weight
- mata
mata
72,878 corpus weight
- matelot
matelot
72,877 corpus weight
- Mathis
Mathis
72,876 corpus weight
- mendiant
mendiant
72,874 corpus weight
What this shows « matelot » 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 | matelot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tlo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « matelot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around matelot (IPA \ma.tlo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,124 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 matelot, with forms such as "amtelot", "maetlot", and "matellot". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "mateo", "matelots", "maillot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is matelot, spelled M-A-T-E-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait partie de l’équipage manœuvrier d’un bâtiment de mer.
- 2Grade ou fonction de matelot.
- 3Matelot spécialisé dans la conduite nautique d’un navire.
- 4Chacun des vaisseaux d’une ligne considéré par rapport à celui qu’il précède ou qu’il suit immédiatement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how matelot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le pont, en tenue légère, étaient des matelots américains, tous abondamment tatoués.
Le mot « matelot », qui signifie dans la vieille langue hollandaise « compagnon de couche », évoque ainsi une situation propre à inspirer un trouble pouvant conduire jusqu'aux privautés les plus poussées.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtelot
- maetlot
- matellot
- matelott
- matelto
- mateolt
- matleot
- mattelot
- mmatelot
- mtaelot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matelot - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).