motard
\mɔ.taʁ\
The verdict
“motard” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motocycliste de l’armée ou de la gendarmerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motard · motard · French
motard · rank #17,197 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,197
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mordu
Nearest frequency peer: mordu (-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 « motard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Montmartre
Montmartre
82,807 corpus weight
- monture
monture
82,806 corpus weight
- mordu
mordu
82,805 corpus weight
- motard
motard
82,804 corpus weight
- munis
munis
82,803 corpus weight
- musculaires
musculaires
82,801 corpus weight
What this shows « motard » 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 | motard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around motard (IPA \mɔ.taʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,197 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for motard, with forms such as "mmotard", "moatrd", and "motadr". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "motor", "Mozart", "motors", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is motard, spelled M-O-T-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Motocycliste de l’armée ou de la gendarmerie.
- 2Motocycliste.
- 3Membre d’une bande criminelle créée autour d’un club de motocyclistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le caricaturiste Plantu a reçu un courrier où Nicolas Sarkozy se plaignait des mouches dessinées au-dessus de sa tête, c’est un motard du ministère de l’Intérieur qui a livré la lettre.
Pour rouler sur les routes belges à moto, un équipement de sécurité obligatoire est nécessaire. C'est inscrit noir sur blanc dans le Code de la Route : les motards et assimilés (scootéristes, cyclomotoristes, trikers,…), qu'ils soient les pilotes ou les passagers de l'engin, doivent être porteurs de gants, d'une veste, d'un pantalon, de chaussures montant…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotard
- moatrd
- motadr
- motardd
- motarrd
- motrad
- mottard
- mtoard
- omtard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).