mégaphone
\me.ɡa.fɔn\
The verdict
“mégaphone” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,247
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Porte-voix à amplification électronique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megaphone · mégaphone · French
mégaphone · rank #49,247 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,247
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 202,672
- PHOTO-FINISH médicamenteus…
Nearest frequency peer: médicamenteuses (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mégaphone”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- musicalité
musicalité
50,757 corpus weight
- mutualistes
mutualistes
50,756 corpus weight
- médicamente…
médicamenteuses
50,755 corpus weight
- mégaphone
mégaphone
50,754 corpus weight
- naturistes
naturistes
50,753 corpus weight
- nippone
nippone
50,752 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mégaphone” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mégaphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ɡa.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mégaphone” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around mégaphone (IPA \me.ɡa.fɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,247 among 202,672 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mégaphone, with forms such as "megaphone", "mgéaphone", and "mmégaphone". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "métaphore", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mégaphone, spelled M-É-G-A-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Porte-voix à amplification électronique.
- 2Moyen qui amplifie un message.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- megaphone
- mgéaphone
- mmégaphone
- méagphone
- mégahpone
- mégaphhone
- mégaphnoe
- mégaphoen
- mégaphonne
- mégapohne
- mégapphone
- méggaphone
- mégpahone
- émgaphone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mégaphone - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mégaphone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.