moteurs
\mɔ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“moteurs” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,943
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de moteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moteurs · moteurs · French
moteurs · rank #3,943 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,943
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milan
Nearest frequency peer: milan (-2 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 « moteurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- massif
massif
96,062 corpus weight
- mentionné
mentionné
96,061 corpus weight
- milan
milan
96,060 corpus weight
- moteurs
moteurs
96,058 corpus weight
- navires
navires
96,056 corpus weight
- nomination
nomination
96,055 corpus weight
What this shows « moteurs » 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 | moteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « moteurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around moteurs (IPA \mɔ.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,943 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de moteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for moteurs, with forms such as "mmoteurs", "moeturs", and "moterus". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "motus", "motors", "meurs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 moteurs, spelled M-O-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de moteur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoteurs
- moeturs
- moterus
- moteurrs
- moteurss
- moteusr
- motteurs
- motuers
- mtoeurs
- omteurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moteurs - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "moteurs", 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).