MOOC
\muk\
The verdict
“MOOC” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,945
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formation qui vise un grand nombre de personnes et se réalise à distance via Internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mooc · MOOC · French
MOOC · rank #22,945 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,945
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mohammad
Nearest frequency peer: Mohammad (-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 « MOOC »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- meurtrières
meurtrières
77,059 corpus weight
- ministériels
ministériels
77,058 corpus weight
- Mohammad
Mohammad
77,057 corpus weight
- MOOC
MOOC
77,056 corpus weight
- morgue
morgue
77,055 corpus weight
- mousquetair…
mousquetaires
77,054 corpus weight
What this shows « MOOC » 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 | MOOC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \muk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « MOOC »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around MOOC (IPA \muk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,945 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Formation qui vise un grand nombre de personnes et se réalise à distance via Internet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for MOOC, with forms such as "mmooc", "moc", and "moco". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mot", "mou", "MRC", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is MOOC, spelled M-O-O-C.
Definition
- 1Formation qui vise un grand nombre de personnes et se réalise à distance via Internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MOOC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le cadre de l’École du Chanvre, on est en train de monter ce qu’on appelle un MOOC, c’est-à-dire de la formation à distance ouverte à tous où les particuliers pourront s’inscrire, les architectes, les bureaux d’étude et l’idée c’est de former en quatre semaines les professionnels à la culture de la construction au chanvre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmooc
- moc
- moco
- moocc
- omoc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of MOOC - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).