Ninon
\ni.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“Ninon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,396
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin, porté notamment par Ninon de Lenclos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ninon · Ninon · French
Ninon · rank #40,396 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,396
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niaise
Nearest frequency peer: niaise (-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 « Ninon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nazies
nazies
59,608 corpus weight
- neu
neu
59,607 corpus weight
- niaise
niaise
59,606 corpus weight
- Ninon
Ninon
59,605 corpus weight
- Noirmoutier
Noirmoutier
59,604 corpus weight
- nutritionnel
nutritionnel
59,603 corpus weight
What this shows « Ninon » 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 | Ninon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ni.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ninon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Ninon (IPA \ni.nɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,396 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin, porté notamment par Ninon de Lenclos.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ninon, with forms such as "innon", "ninno", and "ninnon". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "non", "Nyon", "Nixon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ninon, spelled N-I-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin, porté notamment par Ninon de Lenclos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ninon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, en effet, à quarante-sept ans passés, la baronne pouvait être préférée à sa fille par les amateurs de couchers de soleil ; car elle n’avait encore, comme disent les femmes, rien perdu de ses avantages, par un de ces phénomènes rares, à Paris surtout, où dans ce genre, Ninon a fait scandale, tant elle a paru voler la part des laides au dix-septième siè…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innon
- ninno
- ninnon
- ninonn
- nionn
- nninon
- nnion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ninon - 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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