motrice
\mɔ.tʁis\
The verdict
“motrice” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,698
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne, concept ou entité générant une évolution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motrice · motrice · French
motrice · rank #21,698 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,698
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH motorisation
Nearest frequency peer: motorisation (-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 « motrice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moquette
moquette
78,306 corpus weight
- morgane
morgane
78,305 corpus weight
- motorisation
motorisation
78,304 corpus weight
- motrice
motrice
78,303 corpus weight
- move
move
78,302 corpus weight
- mâchoires
mâchoires
78,301 corpus weight
What this shows « motrice » 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 | motrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motrice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around motrice (IPA \mɔ.tʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,698 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for motrice, with forms such as "mmotrice", "mortice", and "motirce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "motrices", "motricité", "motive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is motrice, spelled M-O-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Personne, concept ou entité générant une évolution.
- 2Personne qui constitue la source de motivation principale d’un mouvement, d’une entreprise commune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont les femmes qui ont été les motrices de toute cette révolte qui divise toute la cour, tout le royaume et toutes les familles.
J’ajoute, qu’en parlant d’une femme qui aurait doné le branle à une afaire, on pourrait et l’on devrait dire, qu’elle a été le moteur, et non pas la motrice de cette afaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotrice
- mortice
- motirce
- motrcie
- motricce
- motriec
- motrrice
- mottrice
- mtorice
- omtrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motrice - 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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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).