Matthew
\ma.tju\
The verdict
“Matthew” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,195
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite île du Sud-Pacifique, sous souveraineté française, située 300 km à l’est de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et au sud-est de l’archipel du Vanuatu qui la revendique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matthew · Matthew · French
Matthew · rank #9,195 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,195
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massivement
Nearest frequency peer: massivement (-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 « Matthew »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lots
lots
90,809 corpus weight
- marchait
marchait
90,808 corpus weight
- massivement
massivement
90,807 corpus weight
- Matthew
Matthew
90,806 corpus weight
- ministères
ministères
90,805 corpus weight
- modernisati…
modernisation
90,804 corpus weight
What this shows « Matthew » 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 | Matthew |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.tju\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Matthew »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Matthew (IPA \ma.tju\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,195 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petite île du Sud-Pacifique, sous souveraineté française, située 300 km à l’est de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et au sud-est de l’archipel du Vanuatu qui la revendique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Matthew, with forms such as "amtthew", "mathew", and "mathtew". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Matthieu", "Matthews", "Marthe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Matthew, spelled M-A-T-T-H-E-W.
Definition
- 1Petite île du Sud-Pacifique, sous souveraineté française, située 300 km à l’est de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et au sud-est de l’archipel du Vanuatu qui la revendique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtthew
- mathew
- mathtew
- mattehw
- mattheww
- matthhew
- matthwe
- mmatthew
- mtathew
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Matthew - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).