nylon
\ni.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“nylon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,090
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière plastique de type polyamide inventée par Wallace Carothers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nylon · nylon · French
nylon · rank #32,090 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,090
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nouméa
Nearest frequency peer: Nouméa (-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 « nylon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- notoirement
notoirement
67,913 corpus weight
- Nouméa
Nouméa
67,912 corpus weight
- nylon
nylon
67,911 corpus weight
- ola
ola
67,910 corpus weight
- oligarques
oligarques
67,909 corpus weight
- Omaha
Omaha
67,908 corpus weight
What this shows « nylon » 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 | nylon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nylon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around nylon (IPA \ni.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,090 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for nylon, with forms such as "nlyon", "nnylon", and "nyllon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Nyon", "non", "néon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nylon, spelled N-Y-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Matière plastique de type polyamide inventée par Wallace Carothers.
- 2Fibre textile de cette matière.
- 3Chemisier nylon.
- 4Sac en plastique donné par les magasins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nylon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La montre avait un boîtier en plastique et un bracelet en nylon.
La voici en combinaison, mais une combinaison d'un nylon si léger que j'aperçois, que je suis obligé d'apercevoir le slip blanc.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nlyon
- nnylon
- nyllon
- nylno
- nylonn
- nyoln
- nyylon
- ynlon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nylon - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).