monaco
\mɔ.na.ko\
The verdict
“monaco” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,412. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,412
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monnaie émise par le prince de Monaco.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monaco · monaco · French
monaco · rank #3,412 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,412
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maurice
Nearest frequency peer: Maurice (-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 « monaco »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Loup
Loup
96,592 corpus weight
- marge
marge
96,591 corpus weight
- Maurice
Maurice
96,590 corpus weight
- monaco
monaco
96,589 corpus weight
- médical
médical
96,588 corpus weight
- métiers
métiers
96,587 corpus weight
What this shows « monaco » 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 | monaco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.na.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « monaco »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around monaco (IPA \mɔ.na.ko\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,412 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for monaco, with forms such as "mmonaco", "mnoaco", and "moanco". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "mono", "mondo", "Monica", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is monaco, spelled M-O-N-A-C-O.
Definition
- 1Monnaie émise par le prince de Monaco.
- 2Sou, monnaie, argent quelle qu’en soit l’origine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monaco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
LE PRINCE : Et je commence par les monacos ! Vous n'êtes pas sans avoir entendu parler des monacos ? EVA : Les sous ! LE PRINCE : Les sous !
Après cette première explosion de gaîté française, notre homme saute en bas de son lit, et, après avoir passé quelques légers vêtements, court visiter le tiroir de sa table, de son secrétaire ou de sa commode pour voir combien il lui reste d'argent à dépenser pour enterrer joyeusement le carnaval, Après avoir bien fouillé, notre gaillard finit par additio…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmonaco
- mnoaco
- moanco
- monacco
- monaoc
- moncao
- monnaco
- omnaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of monaco - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).