matinée
\ma.ti.ne\
The verdict
“matinée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,365
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie du matin qui s’écoule depuis le point du jour jusqu’à midi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matinee · matinée · French
matinée · rank #5,365 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,365
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massacre
Nearest frequency peer: massacre (-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 « matinée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maires
maires
94,639 corpus weight
- manières
manières
94,638 corpus weight
- massacre
massacre
94,637 corpus weight
- matinée
matinée
94,636 corpus weight
- maxime
maxime
94,635 corpus weight
- maîtresse
maîtresse
94,634 corpus weight
What this shows « matinée » 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 | matinée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « matinée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around matinée (IPA \ma.ti.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,365 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for matinée, with forms such as "amtinée", "maitnée", and "matinee". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "motivée", "matisse", "mitigée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is matinée, spelled M-A-T-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Partie du matin qui s’écoule depuis le point du jour jusqu’à midi.
- 2Représentation, spectacle qui a lieu l’après-midi, par opposition à la soirée.
- 3Vêtement d’intérieur porté le matin par les femmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how matinée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux travailleurs essuyèrent leurs visages trempés, […], puis se parlèrent et se comportèrent comme des hommes qui se congratulent d’une matinée bien employée.
Le baromètre a baissé terriblement pendant la nuit et la matinée. Je m’attends à du gros temps.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtinée
- maitnée
- matinee
- matineé
- matinnée
- matiéne
- matniée
- mattinée
- mmatinée
- mtainée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matinée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).