mobylette
\mɔ.bi.lɛt\
The verdict
“mobylette” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,174. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,174
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vélomoteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mobylette · mobylette · French
mobylette · rank #45,174 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,174
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moa
Nearest frequency peer: moa (-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 « mobylette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- microbienne
microbienne
54,830 corpus weight
- minister
minister
54,829 corpus weight
- moa
moa
54,828 corpus weight
- mobylette
mobylette
54,827 corpus weight
- modi
modi
54,826 corpus weight
- monolithe
monolithe
54,825 corpus weight
What this shows « mobylette » 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 | mobylette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.bi.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mobylette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mobylette (IPA \mɔ.bi.lɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,174 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vélomoteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mobylette, with forms such as "mboylette", "mmobylette", and "mobbylette". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "molette", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mobylette, spelled M-O-B-Y-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Vélomoteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mobylette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaines personnes vous diront : pour visiter les îles grecques, il faut une mobylette. Pour visiter Bali, il faut une mobylette. Pour visiter le nord de la Thaïlande il faut une mobylette…
L'émergence des scooters et des mobylettes n'est certes pas étrangère à ce changement de culture au Québec. Effectivement, à la même époque, les mobylettes et les scooters réussissent à se tailler une place enviable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mboylette
- mmobylette
- mobbylette
- moblyette
- mobyeltte
- mobylete
- mobyletet
- mobyllette
- mobyltete
- mobyylette
- moyblette
- ombylette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mobylette - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).