Ontarien
\ɔ̃.ta.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“Ontarien” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,819
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de l’Ontario, province du Canada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ontarien · Ontarien · French
Ontarien · rank #26,819 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,819
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Olaf
Nearest frequency peer: Olaf (-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 « Ontarien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obstination
obstination
73,185 corpus weight
- obéissant
obéissant
73,184 corpus weight
- Olaf
Olaf
73,183 corpus weight
- Ontarien
Ontarien
73,182 corpus weight
- padre
padre
73,181 corpus weight
- partiront
partiront
73,180 corpus weight
What this shows « Ontarien » 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 | Ontarien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.ta.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ontarien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Ontarien (IPA \ɔ̃.ta.ʁjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,819 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Habitant de l’Ontario, province du Canada.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ontarien, with forms such as "notarien", "onatrien", and "onntarien". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Ontario", "ontariens", "ontarienne", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ontarien, spelled O-N-T-A-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant de l’Ontario, province du Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ontarien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quebecquoise de naissance, Ontarienne d’adoption, Madeleine Meilleur dit vouer "une admiration pour ces Franco-Ontariens qui ont lutté depuis toujours pour le français.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- notarien
- onatrien
- onntarien
- ontairen
- ontarein
- ontarienn
- ontarine
- ontarrien
- ontraien
- onttarien
- otnarien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ontarien - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).