midnight
\ˈmɪd.naɪt\
The verdict
“midnight” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,251
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Moment de la journée) Minuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-midnight · midnight · French
midnight · rank #28,251 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,251
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH militer
Nearest frequency peer: militer (+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 « midnight »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- massue
massue
71,753 corpus weight
- mathématiqu…
mathématiquement
71,752 corpus weight
- midnight
midnight
71,750 corpus weight
- militer
militer
71,749 corpus weight
- misères
misères
71,748 corpus weight
- mitrailleuse
mitrailleuse
71,747 corpus weight
What this shows « midnight » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | midnight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɪd.naɪt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « midnight »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around midnight (IPA \ˈmɪd.naɪt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,251 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Moment de la journée) Minuit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for midnight, with forms such as "imdnight", "mdinight", and "middnight". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is midnight, spelled M-I-D-N-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1(Moment de la journée) Minuit.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imdnight
- mdinight
- middnight
- midinght
- midngiht
- midnigght
- midnighht
- midnightt
- midnigth
- midnihgt
- midnnight
- mindight
- mmidnight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of midnight - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).