mijoter
\mi.ʒɔ.te\
The verdict
“mijoter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,896. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,896
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire cuire doucement et lentement dans un récipient couvert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mijoter · mijoter · French
mijoter · rank #39,896 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,896
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messier
Nearest frequency peer: messier (-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 « mijoter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Manfred
Manfred
60,109 corpus weight
- manigances
manigances
60,108 corpus weight
- mathurin
mathurin
60,107 corpus weight
- messier
messier
60,106 corpus weight
- mijoter
mijoter
60,105 corpus weight
- mojo
mojo
60,102 corpus weight
What this shows « mijoter » 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 | mijoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.ʒɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mijoter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mijoter (IPA \mi.ʒɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,896 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mijoter, with forms such as "imjoter", "mijjoter", and "mijoetr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mister", "militer", "miroiter", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mijoter, spelled M-I-J-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire cuire doucement et lentement dans un récipient couvert.
- 2Préparer lentement, à petit bruit, en parlant d’une affaire ; préparer qqch en secret.
- 3Macérer.
- 4Se trouver dans une situation d'attente ; patienter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mijoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mijoter du bœuf à la mode. — La soupe mijote.
Pourquoi ce nom ? Parce qu'en hiver, l'on y sert des petits plats mijotés façon grand-mère et servis... en cocotte, tels le sauté de veau, le bœuf bourguignon, le coq au vin.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imjoter
- mijjoter
- mijoetr
- mijoterr
- mijotre
- mijotter
- mijtoer
- miojter
- mjioter
- mmijoter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mijoter - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mijoter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).