ninja
\nin.dʒa\
The verdict
“ninja” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,205. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,205
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espion japonais. Dans les œuvres de fiction, ils et elles sont plus souvent représenté vêtu de noir, une cagoule masquant son visage, accomplissant des exploits physiques en combat, des acrobaties,...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ninja · ninja · French
ninja · rank #12,205 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,205
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH narration
Nearest frequency peer: narration (-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 « ninja »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- médiévale
médiévale
87,799 corpus weight
- méridionale
méridionale
87,798 corpus weight
- narration
narration
87,797 corpus weight
- ninja
ninja
87,796 corpus weight
- nées
nées
87,795 corpus weight
- OMS
OMS
87,794 corpus weight
What this shows « ninja » 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 | ninja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nin.dʒa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ninja »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ninja (IPA \nin.dʒa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,205 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ninja, with forms such as "innja", "nijna", and "ninaj". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "niño", "Ninon", "ninjas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ninja, spelled N-I-N-J-A.
Definition
- 1Espion japonais. Dans les œuvres de fiction, ils et elles sont plus souvent représenté vêtu de noir, une cagoule masquant son visage, accomplissant des exploits physiques en combat, des acrobaties, et expert dans les techniques de diversion.
- 2Menace destinée à pousser les joueurs et joueuses à l’action, pour faire avancer une situation qui s’enlise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ninja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Incapable de me redresser, j'entrevis un ninja lever son arme au-dessus de ma tête, puis s'écrouler sur moi, le dos transpercé.
Elle qui a toujours rêvé d'être une ninja, voilà qu'elle se découvre des dons surnaturels !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innja
- nijna
- ninaj
- ninjja
- ninnja
- nnija
- nninja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ninja - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).