matos
\ma.tos\
The verdict
“matos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,731
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matériel d’une manière générale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matos · matos · French
matos · rank #14,731 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,731
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mason
Nearest frequency peer: mason (-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 « matos »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- martel
martel
85,273 corpus weight
- marxiste
marxiste
85,272 corpus weight
- mason
mason
85,271 corpus weight
- matos
matos
85,270 corpus weight
- matérielles
matérielles
85,269 corpus weight
- med
med
85,268 corpus weight
What this shows « matos » 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 | matos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tos\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « matos »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around matos (IPA \ma.tos\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,731 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for matos, with forms such as "amtos", "maots", and "matoss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mos", "mots", "mets", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is matos, spelled M-A-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Matériel d’une manière générale.
- 2Ensemble des organes génitaux apparents masculins ; génitoires.
- 3Femme.
- 4Haschich.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how matos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— J’planquerai le matos dans des sacs de golf. — Le matos, s’étonna Larouche, c’est quoi ? — Ben… les masques à gaz, les fumigènes, les pieds de biche, le bélier, les bastos et les arquebuses.
« Ils nous voient et rangent leur matos tant qu’on est sur place », note Antoine, avant d’accepter un nouveau selfie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtos
- maots
- matoss
- matso
- mattos
- mmatos
- mtaos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matos - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).