menace
\mə.nas\
The verdict
“menace” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,087
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parole ou geste pour marquer sa colère, son ressentiment et pour faire craindre le mal qu’on prépare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menace · menace · French
menace · rank #2,087 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,087
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH locale
Nearest frequency peer: locale (-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 « menace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- islam
islam
97,916 corpus weight
- locale
locale
97,915 corpus weight
- menace
menace
97,914 corpus weight
- mettent
mettent
97,913 corpus weight
- mobile
mobile
97,912 corpus weight
- mouvements
mouvements
97,911 corpus weight
What this shows « menace » 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 | menace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.nas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « menace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around menace (IPA \mə.nas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,087 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for menace, with forms such as "emnace", "meance", and "menacce". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "mené", "menée", "mince", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is menace, spelled M-E-N-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Parole ou geste pour marquer sa colère, son ressentiment et pour faire craindre le mal qu’on prépare.
- 2Signes, pronostics qui font craindre quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais c'est toujours en vain qu'ils somment les Charitois de chasser leur garnison: leurs menaces armées n'ont pas plus d'effet que leurs menaces écrites : toutes leurs démarches viennent se briser contre une inébranlable résolution.
Les deux Allemands le tenaient sous la menace de leurs yeux haineux. Pendant un moment Bert vit la mort proche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emnace
- meance
- menacce
- menaec
- mencae
- mennace
- mmenace
- mneace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menace - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).