mitrailleuse
\mi.tʁa.jøz\
The verdict
“mitrailleuse” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,254. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,254
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arme à feu automatique, disposée de manière à envoyer des balles avec une très grande rapidité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitrailleuse · mitrailleuse · French
mitrailleuse · rank #28,254 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,254
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH misères
Nearest frequency peer: misères (-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 « mitrailleuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- midnight
midnight
71,750 corpus weight
- militer
militer
71,749 corpus weight
- misères
misères
71,748 corpus weight
- mitrailleuse
mitrailleuse
71,747 corpus weight
- modestement
modestement
71,746 corpus weight
- modérateurs
modérateurs
71,745 corpus weight
What this shows « mitrailleuse » 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 | mitrailleuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.tʁa.jøz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #28,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mitrailleuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around mitrailleuse (IPA \mi.tʁa.jøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,254 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mitrailleuse, with forms such as "imtrailleuse", "mirtailleuse", and "mitarilleuse". 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 also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mitrailleuses", "mitrailleur", "mitraillette", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mitrailleuse, spelled M-I-T-R-A-I-L-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Arme à feu automatique, disposée de manière à envoyer des balles avec une très grande rapidité.
- 2Soldate qui utilise cette arme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mitrailleuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le feu des fusils Mauser commença ; ce fut un vacarme épouvantable dans lequel on percevait le ronflement des obus à la lydite, le crépitement des fusils Metford, les éclats des mitrailleuses boers et les sifflements des Mauser.
En outre, des bandes de mitrailleuses furent trouvées, entièrement ou partiellement garnies de balles explosibles
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imtrailleuse
- mirtailleuse
- mitarilleuse
- mitraileluse
- mitraileuse
- mitraillesue
- mitrailleues
- mitrailluese
- mitralileuse
- mitrialleuse
- mitrrailleuse
- mittrailleuse
- mmitrailleuse
- mtirailleuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mitrailleuse - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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