odéon
\ɔ.de.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“odéon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,888. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,888
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Édifice destiné, chez les anciens, à la répétition de la musique qui devait être chantée sur le théâtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-odeon · odéon · French
odéon · rank #29,888 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,888
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obligeait
Nearest frequency peer: obligeait (-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 « odéon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nuancer
nuancer
70,116 corpus weight
- nuggets
nuggets
70,115 corpus weight
- obligeait
obligeait
70,114 corpus weight
- odéon
odéon
70,113 corpus weight
- og
og
70,112 corpus weight
- Olsen
Olsen
70,111 corpus weight
What this shows « odéon » 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 | odéon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.de.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « odéon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around odéon (IPA \ɔ.de.ɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,888 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Édifice destiné, chez les anciens, à la répétition de la musique qui devait être chantée sur le théâtre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for odéon, with forms such as "doéon", "oddéon", and "odeon". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "open", "Owen", "Odin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is odéon, spelled O-D-É-O-N.
Definition
- 1Édifice destiné, chez les anciens, à la répétition de la musique qui devait être chantée sur le théâtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how odéon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plus magnifique odéon de l’Antiquité était celui que Périclès fit bâtir dans la ville d’Athènes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- doéon
- oddéon
- odeon
- odoén
- odéno
- odéonn
- oédon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of odéon - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).