muté
\my.te\
The verdict
“muté” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,292. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,292
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un vin dont la fermentation a été stoppée par l’ajout d’alcool ou d'acide sulfureux lui permettant ainsi de garder des sucres résiduels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mute · muté · French
muté · rank #24,292 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,292
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mouvementée
Nearest frequency peer: mouvementée (-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 « muté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- minutieux
minutieux
75,713 corpus weight
- mmm
mmm
75,712 corpus weight
- monastique
monastique
75,711 corpus weight
- mouvementée
mouvementée
75,710 corpus weight
- muté
muté
75,709 corpus weight
- mélangeant
mélangeant
75,707 corpus weight
What this shows « muté » 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 | muté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \my.te\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « muté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around muté (IPA \my.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,292 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dit d’un vin dont la fermentation a été stoppée par l’ajout d’alcool ou d'acide sulfureux lui permettant ainsi de garder des sucres résiduels.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for muté, with forms such as "mmuté", "mtué", and "mutté". 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, "muy", "mythe", "muter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 muté, spelled M-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un vin dont la fermentation a été stoppée par l’ajout d’alcool ou d'acide sulfureux lui permettant ainsi de garder des sucres résiduels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how muté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Porto, le Pineau des Charentes, les Muscats, sont des vins mutés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmuté
- mtué
- mutté
- muét
- umté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muté - 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 "muté", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).