Moscovite
\mɔs.kɔ.vit\
The verdict
“Moscovite” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,408
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant ou habitante de la ville de Moscou en Russie, ou personne originaire de cette ville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moscovite · Moscovite · French
Moscovite · rank #39,408 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,408
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montluçon
Nearest frequency peer: Montluçon (-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 « Moscovite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- monospace
monospace
60,596 corpus weight
- Montevideo
Montevideo
60,595 corpus weight
- Montluçon
Montluçon
60,594 corpus weight
- Moscovite
Moscovite
60,593 corpus weight
- MSC
MSC
60,592 corpus weight
- multicultur…
multiculturelle
60,591 corpus weight
What this shows « Moscovite » 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 | Moscovite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔs.kɔ.vit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Moscovite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Moscovite (IPA \mɔs.kɔ.vit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,408 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Habitant ou habitante de la ville de Moscou en Russie, ou personne originaire de cette ville.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Moscovite, with forms such as "mmoscovite", "mocsovite", and "mosccovite". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Moscovici", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Moscovite, spelled M-O-S-C-O-V-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Habitant ou habitante de la ville de Moscou en Russie, ou personne originaire de cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Moscovite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous sommes les Moscovites aux dents de loup, les Asiatiques aux yeux avides et louches, dont parle notre grand poète Block, les Scythes qui marchent sous le signe de la tempête, à l’assaut de la civilisation occidentale, pour violer les Trois Oies Blanches de votre Capitole : votre Liberté, votre Égalité et votre Fraternité, cette Trinité bêlante qui r…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoscovite
- mocsovite
- mosccovite
- moscoivte
- moscoviet
- moscovitte
- moscovtie
- moscovvite
- moscvoite
- mosocvite
- mosscovite
- msocovite
- omscovite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Moscovite - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).