Nottingham
The verdict
“Nottingham” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,801. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,801
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville, cité et autorité unitaire d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Nottinghamshire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nottingham |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nottingham” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Nottingham, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,801 among 86,328 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville, cité et autorité unitaire d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Nottinghamshire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nottingham, with forms such as "nnottingham", "notingham", and "notitngham". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Nottingham, spelled N-O-T-T-I-N-G-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1Ville, cité et autorité unitaire d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Nottinghamshire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnottingham,notingham,notitngham,nottignham,nottingahm,nottinggham,nottinghamm,nottinghham,nottinghma,nottinhgam,nottinngham,nottnigham,ntotingham,onttingham
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nottingham - 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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Using “Nottingham”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-T-T-I-N-G-H-A-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.