monitor
\mo.ni.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“monitor” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,900
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patrouilleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monitor · monitor · French
monitor · rank #46,900 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,900
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mondialistes
Nearest frequency peer: mondialistes (-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 « monitor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- modif
modif
53,104 corpus weight
- mohawk
mohawk
53,103 corpus weight
- mondialistes
mondialistes
53,102 corpus weight
- monitor
monitor
53,101 corpus weight
- monstruosité
monstruosité
53,100 corpus weight
- moser
moser
53,099 corpus weight
What this shows « monitor » 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 | monitor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.ni.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « monitor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around monitor (IPA \mo.ni.tɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,900 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 monitor, with forms such as "mmonitor", "mnoitor", and "mointor". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "motor", "monter", "Monster", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is monitor, spelled M-O-N-I-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Patrouilleur.
- 2Autre nom du varan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monitor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une seule fois, le 28 octobre 1917, le lourd et lent monitor anglais Erebus reçoit un canot-torpille en pleine coque et... garde le sourire.
Or moi, bateau perdu sous les cheveux des anses, Jeté par l’ouragan dans l’éther sans oiseau, Moi dont les Monitors et les voiliers des Hanses N’auraient pas repêché la carcasse ivre d’eau,
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmonitor
- mnoitor
- mointor
- moniotr
- monitorr
- monitro
- monittor
- monnitor
- montior
- omnitor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of monitor - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "monitor", 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).