Mozambique
\mɔ.zɑ̃.bik\
The verdict
“Mozambique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,345
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays situé sur la côte orientale de l’Afrique, entouré par l’Afrique du Sud, le Swaziland, le Zimbabwe, la Zambie, le Malawi et la Tanzanie. Sa capitale est Maputo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mozambique · Mozambique · French
Mozambique · rank #19,345 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,345
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montrés
Nearest frequency peer: montrés (-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 « Mozambique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marks
marks
80,660 corpus weight
- mentionnant
mentionnant
80,659 corpus weight
- molly
molly
80,658 corpus weight
- montrés
montrés
80,657 corpus weight
- Mozambique
Mozambique
80,656 corpus weight
- méritez
méritez
80,653 corpus weight
What this shows « Mozambique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mozambique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.zɑ̃.bik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mozambique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Mozambique (IPA \mɔ.zɑ̃.bik\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,345 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays situé sur la côte orientale de l’Afrique, entouré par l’Afrique du Sud, le Swaziland, le Zimbabwe, la Zambie, le Malawi et la Tanzanie. Sa capitale est Maputo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mozambique, with forms such as "mmozambique", "moazmbique", and "mozabmique". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Mozambique, spelled M-O-Z-A-M-B-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Pays situé sur la côte orientale de l’Afrique, entouré par l’Afrique du Sud, le Swaziland, le Zimbabwe, la Zambie, le Malawi et la Tanzanie. Sa capitale est Maputo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mozambique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
QUILOA, (Géog mod.) île & ville d’Afrique au Zanguebar, sur la côte de Mélinde, à 100 lieues du Mozambique. Les Portugais en firent la découverte en 1498, & rendirent son royaume leur tributaire.
Au XVIIIᵉ siècle, un Européen en voyage au Mozambique s’enquiert auprès d’un groupe d’esclaves qu’on s’apprête à charger dans la cale d’un bateau de ce qui, à leur avis, les attend : « Ils nous ont achetés et nous embarquent pour nous manger », répondent les esclaves.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmozambique
- moazmbique
- mozabmique
- mozambbique
- mozambiqeu
- mozambiqque
- mozambiuqe
- mozambqiue
- mozamibque
- mozammbique
- mozmabique
- mozzambique
- mzoambique
- omzambique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mozambique - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).