menhir
\me.niʁ\
The verdict
“menhir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,042
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bloc de pierre de forme allongée, dressé par les populations néolithiques, que l’on trouve en territoire celte, notamment en Bretagne et Grande-Bretagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menhir · menhir · French
menhir · rank #48,042 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,042
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meng
Nearest frequency peer: meng (-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 « menhir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- meneuse
meneuse
51,961 corpus weight
- meng
meng
51,960 corpus weight
- menhir
menhir
51,959 corpus weight
- mercis
mercis
51,958 corpus weight
- meringue
meringue
51,957 corpus weight
- miaou
miaou
51,956 corpus weight
What this shows « menhir » 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 | menhir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « menhir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around menhir (IPA \me.niʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,042 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bloc de pierre de forme allongée, dressé par les populations néolithiques, que l’on trouve en territoire celte, notamment en Bretagne et Grande-Bretagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for menhir, with forms such as "emnhir", "mehnir", and "menhhir". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "menti", "munir", "mentir", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is menhir, spelled M-E-N-H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Bloc de pierre de forme allongée, dressé par les populations néolithiques, que l’on trouve en territoire celte, notamment en Bretagne et Grande-Bretagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menhir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La civilisation mégalithique, qui succède à celle des cavernes, a surtout pour caractère saillant les grands monuments connus sous le nom de dolmens, allées couvertes, menhirs.
Vers Carnac, tous les champs se hérissent de barrières de pierres ; à cet effet, les monuments celtiques ont été dévastés ; on estime qu’il a péri deux mille menhirs, il en reste onze ou douze cents. Nous en visitons les deux plus grandes files, l’une surtout qui s’avance jusqu’en vue de la mer, énormément longue, cinq rangs de pierres alignées de l’orien…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emnhir
- mehnir
- menhhir
- menhirr
- menhri
- menihr
- mennhir
- mmenhir
- mnehir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menhir - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).