nettoient
\nɛ.twa\
The verdict
“nettoient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,922. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,922
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nettoyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nettoient · nettoient · French
nettoient · rank #41,922 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,922
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nettoyez
Nearest frequency peer: nettoyez (+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 « nettoient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nasal
nasal
58,082 corpus weight
- naturalisme
naturalisme
58,081 corpus weight
- nettoient
nettoient
58,079 corpus weight
- nettoyez
nettoyez
58,078 corpus weight
- Neumann
Neumann
58,077 corpus weight
- neurone
neurone
58,076 corpus weight
What this shows « nettoient » 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 | nettoient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɛ.twa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nettoient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around nettoient (IPA \nɛ.twa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,922 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for nettoient, with forms such as "enttoient", "netoient", and "netotient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nettoyant", "nettoie", "nettement", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nettoient, spelled N-E-T-T-O-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nettoyer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de nettoyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nettoient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aide place les cartouches sur le prélat ; les démolisseurs coupent les ligatures, enlèvent le boulet ensaboté, le brossent, le posent sur le prélat, versent la poudre grenée dans un baril, celle en roche dans un autre, retournent le sachet, le nettoient et le mettent dans la caisse ; le désensaboteur reçoit les boulets de l’aide et désensabote ceux qui…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enttoient
- netoient
- netotient
- nettioent
- nettoeint
- nettoiennt
- nettoientt
- nettoietn
- nettoinet
- nnettoient
- ntetoient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nettoient - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nettoient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).