motta
\mɔ.ta\
The verdict
“motta” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,405
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe motter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motta · motta · French
motta · rank #25,405 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,405
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mother
Nearest frequency peer: mother (-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 « motta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moqueur
moqueur
74,599 corpus weight
- moratoire
moratoire
74,598 corpus weight
- mother
mother
74,597 corpus weight
- motta
motta
74,596 corpus weight
- mousses
mousses
74,595 corpus weight
- muscu
muscu
74,593 corpus weight
What this shows « motta » 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 | motta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around motta (IPA \mɔ.ta\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,405 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe motter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for motta, with forms such as "mmotta", "mota", and "motat". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moya", "Motte", "motus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is motta, spelled M-O-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe motter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotta
- mota
- motat
- mtota
- omtta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motta - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).