matheux
\ma.tø\
The verdict
“matheux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,166
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui étudie et aime les mathématiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matheux · matheux · French
matheux · rank #45,166 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,166
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marteler
Nearest frequency peer: marteler (-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 « matheux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marginalisés
marginalisés
54,838 corpus weight
- Marmande
Marmande
54,837 corpus weight
- marteler
marteler
54,836 corpus weight
- matheux
matheux
54,835 corpus weight
- matérialist…
matérialistes
54,834 corpus weight
- mazarine
mazarine
54,833 corpus weight
What this shows « matheux » 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 | matheux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « matheux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around matheux (IPA \ma.tø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,166 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui étudie et aime les mathématiques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for matheux, with forms such as "amtheux", "mahteux", and "matehux". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "miteux", "Mathieu", "malheur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is matheux, spelled M-A-T-H-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Personne qui étudie et aime les mathématiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how matheux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma mère eut un cavalier de son lycée pour les bals, un gars dans le genre matheux boutonneux, bien aise qu’elle acceptât de danser avec lui, car il fauchait en dansant […].
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtheux
- mahteux
- matehux
- matheuxx
- mathexu
- mathheux
- mathuex
- mattheux
- mmatheux
- mtaheux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matheux - 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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