notoire
\nɔ.twaʁ\
The verdict
“notoire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,809. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,809
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Connu du public, manifeste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-notoire · notoire · French
notoire · rank #18,809 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,809
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nombril
Nearest frequency peer: nombril (-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 « notoire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- métis
métis
81,195 corpus weight
- nasser
nasser
81,194 corpus weight
- nombril
nombril
81,193 corpus weight
- notoire
notoire
81,192 corpus weight
- nulles
nulles
81,191 corpus weight
- Odile
Odile
81,189 corpus weight
What this shows « notoire » 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 | notoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « notoire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around notoire (IPA \nɔ.twaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,809 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Connu du public, manifeste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for notoire, with forms such as "nnotoire", "nootire", and "notiore". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "notre", "notoires", "noire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is notoire, spelled N-O-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Connu du public, manifeste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how notoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, chose curieuse, plusieurs de ces descendants du plus rationaliste de nos rabbins, sont des mystiques notoires, notamment […] Salomon Louria, l’un des plus grands cabalistes […]
L'histoire de Jeffrey Dahmer, l'un des tueurs en série les plus notoires de l'histoire américaine, surnommé le "monstre du Milwaukee". - (Netflix, 2022)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnotoire
- nootire
- notiore
- notoier
- notoirre
- notorie
- nottoire
- ntooire
- ontoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of notoire - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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