mustang
\mys.tɑ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“mustang” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,402. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,402
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom des chevaux sauvages de la pampa de la Sud-Amérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mustang · mustang · French
mustang · rank #21,402 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,402
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mortelles
Nearest frequency peer: mortelles (-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 « mustang »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mississippi
Mississippi
78,603 corpus weight
- Montgomery
Montgomery
78,601 corpus weight
- mortelles
mortelles
78,600 corpus weight
- mustang
mustang
78,599 corpus weight
- mystérieuses
mystérieuses
78,598 corpus weight
- mépriser
mépriser
78,596 corpus weight
What this shows « mustang » 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 | mustang |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mys.tɑ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mustang »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mustang (IPA \mys.tɑ̃ɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,402 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mustang, with forms such as "mmustang", "msutang", and "musatng". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mutant", "Mustafa", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mustang, spelled M-U-S-T-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1Nom des chevaux sauvages de la pampa de la Sud-Amérique.
- 2Race de cheval de travail, cheval sauvage originaire du Nord-Ouest de l’Amérique du Nord et du Canada, descendant de chevaux domestiques revenus à l'état sauvage du fait du phénomène du marronnage, dont la taille au garrot est de 1,35 à 1,55 m, utilisés pour le travail du bétail, le rodéo et la randonnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mustang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors il lança son cheval dans les magueys, et l'un et l'autre furent en un instant hors de vue ; mais en m'approchant j'entendis les feuilles épaisses craquer sous le sabot du mustang ; il fallait l'imiter ou abandonner la poursuite.
Avec des rations qui empêcheraient à peine nos chevaux de mourir, les mustangs de la pampa vivent et prospèrent parfaitement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmustang
- msutang
- musatng
- musstang
- mustagn
- mustangg
- mustanng
- mustnag
- musttang
- mutsang
- umstang
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mustang - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).