Mathieu
\ma.tjø\
The verdict
“Mathieu” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,508. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,508
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, connu entre autres par le peintre Georges Mathieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mathieu · Mathieu · French
Mathieu · rank #4,508 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,508
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marquée
Nearest frequency peer: marquée (-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 « Mathieu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manifestants
manifestants
95,496 corpus weight
- marne
marne
95,495 corpus weight
- marquée
marquée
95,494 corpus weight
- Mathieu
Mathieu
95,493 corpus weight
- mien
mien
95,492 corpus weight
- miracle
miracle
95,491 corpus weight
What this shows « Mathieu » 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 | Mathieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.tjø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mathieu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Mathieu (IPA \ma.tjø\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,508 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, connu entre autres par le peintre Georges Mathieu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mathieu, with forms such as "amthieu", "mahtieu", and "matheiu". 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, "Mathis", "Matthieu", "Mathias", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Mathieu, spelled M-A-T-H-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, connu entre autres par le peintre Georges Mathieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mathieu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils avaient brûlé ce qu’ils avaient adoré : les miroirs de sorcière, les billots, les stupides petits mobiles, les radiomètres, les cailloutis multicolores, les panneaux de jute agrémentés de paraphes à la Mathieu.
Didier Éribon, Nicolas Mathieu, Ariane Ascaride et Mattia Filice répondent aux questions de l’animateur Augustin Trapenard, qui met leur actualité littéraire en perspective.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amthieu
- mahtieu
- matheiu
- mathhieu
- mathiue
- matiheu
- mmathieu
- mtahieu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mathieu - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).