mixture
\mik.styʁ\
The verdict
“mixture” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,017. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,017
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange, homogène ou non, de plusieurs substances, plus particulièrement de substances liquides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mixture · mixture · French
mixture · rank #43,017 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,017
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miron
Nearest frequency peer: miron (-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 « mixture »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mimosa
mimosa
56,988 corpus weight
- mirages
mirages
56,987 corpus weight
- miron
miron
56,985 corpus weight
- mixture
mixture
56,984 corpus weight
- mojito
mojito
56,983 corpus weight
- Montebello
Montebello
56,981 corpus weight
What this shows « mixture » 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 | mixture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mik.styʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mixture »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mixture (IPA \mik.styʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,017 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mixture, with forms such as "imxture", "mitxure", and "mixtrue". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "monture", "mouture", "mixte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mixture, spelled M-I-X-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Mélange, homogène ou non, de plusieurs substances, plus particulièrement de substances liquides.
- 2Mélange quelconque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mixture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils changèrent de sujet en buvant un avant-dernier godet de la fameuse mixture régionale, car dans cette contrée verdoyante on ne disait jamais le dernier godet, il paraît que cela porte malheur.
Quel ne fut pas mon étonnement de reconnaître, après avoir goûté à cette boisson, que non seulement l'illusion était possible, mais encore que le café d'orge était vingt fois préférable aux horribles mixtures où règne la chicorée que l'on nous sert à Paris dans les établissements de second ordre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imxture
- mitxure
- mixtrue
- mixtture
- mixtuer
- mixturre
- mixutre
- mixxture
- mmixture
- mxiture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mixture - 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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Same letter count
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