monkey
\ˈmʌŋ.ki\
The verdict
“monkey” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Singe, guenon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monkey · monkey · French
monkey · rank #34,197 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,197
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moix
Nearest frequency peer: Moix (-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 « monkey »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- miroiter
miroiter
65,807 corpus weight
- modus
modus
65,806 corpus weight
- Moix
Moix
65,805 corpus weight
- monkey
monkey
65,804 corpus weight
- Montcalm
Montcalm
65,803 corpus weight
- moquez
moquez
65,802 corpus weight
What this shows « monkey » 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 | monkey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmʌŋ.ki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « monkey »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around monkey (IPA \ˈmʌŋ.ki\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,197 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for monkey, with forms such as "mmonkey", "mnokey", and "mokney". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "monte", "monter", "montée", and more, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is monkey, spelled M-O-N-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Singe, guenon.
- 2Enfant espiègle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monkey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The biological order of primates includes prosimians (lemurs and tarsiers), apes and monkeys.
What a little monkey!
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmonkey
- mnokey
- mokney
- moneky
- monkeyy
- monkkey
- monkye
- monnkey
- omnkey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of monkey - 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 "monkey", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).