Neuchâtel
\nø.ʃa.tɛl\
The verdict
“Neuchâtel” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,350. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,350
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du canton de Neuchâtel en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neuchatel · Neuchâtel · French
Neuchâtel · rank #19,350 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,350
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH NBC
Nearest frequency peer: NBC (-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 « Neuchâtel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- méritez
méritez
80,653 corpus weight
- NBC
NBC
80,652 corpus weight
- Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
80,651 corpus weight
- Neuville
Neuville
80,650 corpus weight
- nicotine
nicotine
80,649 corpus weight
- notificatio…
notifications
80,648 corpus weight
What this shows « Neuchâtel » 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 | Neuchâtel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nø.ʃa.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Neuchâtel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Neuchâtel (IPA \nø.ʃa.tɛl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,350 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Neuchâtel, with forms such as "enuchâtel", "necuhâtel", and "neucchâtel". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "neufchâtel", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Neuchâtel, spelled N-E-U-C-H-Â-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Ville du canton de Neuchâtel en Suisse.
- 2Canton et ancienne principauté autour de cette ville.
- 3District de ce canton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Neuchâtel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neuchatel (…) est une ville médiocre & bien bâtie. Elle s’élève en amphithéatre sur les bords du lac qui porte son nom : on y compte environ 3000 âmes. Son origine est très-ancienne ; le nom de Novum castrum qu’elle porte dans tous les anciens actes, semble annoncer que les Romains en ont été les fondateurs.
NEUCHATEL, petit état en Suisse, avec titre de principauté (…) comprend le comté de Neuchâtel, & la seigneurie de Valeugin, réunis depuis près de deux siecles sous une même domination.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enuchâtel
- necuhâtel
- neucchâtel
- neuchatel
- neuchhâtel
- neuchtâel
- neuchâetl
- neuchâtell
- neuchâtle
- neuchâttel
- neucâhtel
- neuhcâtel
- nneuchâtel
- nuechâtel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Neuchâtel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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