membranes
\mɑ̃.bʁan\
The verdict
“membranes” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,704
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de membrane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-membranes · membranes · French
membranes · rank #30,704 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,704
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Melvin
Nearest frequency peer: Melvin (-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 « membranes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Maureen
Maureen
69,300 corpus weight
- McCoy
McCoy
69,299 corpus weight
- Melvin
Melvin
69,298 corpus weight
- membranes
membranes
69,297 corpus weight
- merdeux
merdeux
69,296 corpus weight
- mobilités
mobilités
69,295 corpus weight
What this shows « membranes » 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 | membranes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.bʁan\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « membranes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around membranes (IPA \mɑ̃.bʁan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,704 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de membrane.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for membranes, with forms such as "emmbranes", "mebmranes", and "membarnes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "membres", "membrane", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is membranes, spelled M-E-M-B-R-A-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de membrane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how membranes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, il faut noter qu’une sonde fluorescente peut pénétrer par des mécanismes différents selon le règne cellulaire considéré : ainsi le jaune Lucifer (Lucifer Yellow) déclaré imperméant aux membranes animales est en fait transporté activement par une membrane de cellule végétale (Cole et al, 1991).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmbranes
- mebmranes
- membarnes
- membbranes
- membraens
- membraness
- membrannes
- membranse
- membrnaes
- membrranes
- memmbranes
- memrbanes
- mmebranes
- mmembranes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of membranes - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).