optimum
\op.ti.mɔm\
The verdict
“optimum” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,464
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La plus favorable des options, le choix le plus favorable étant donné les circonstances.
Corpus desk
Index FR-optimum · optimum · French
optimum · rank #29,464 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,464
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oculus
Nearest frequency peer: oculus (-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 « optimum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obtenait
obtenait
70,540 corpus weight
- occasionnels
occasionnels
70,539 corpus weight
- oculus
oculus
70,538 corpus weight
- optimum
optimum
70,537 corpus weight
- Orban
Orban
70,536 corpus weight
- orgues
orgues
70,535 corpus weight
What this shows « optimum » 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 | optimum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \op.ti.mɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « optimum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around optimum (IPA \op.ti.mɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,464 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for optimum, with forms such as "opitmum", "opptimum", and "optimmu". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "optique", "optimus", "opium", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 optimum, spelled O-P-T-I-M-U-M.
Definition
- 1La plus favorable des options, le choix le plus favorable étant donné les circonstances.
- 2Maximum ou minimum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how optimum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'optimum de Pareto.
Un optimum local.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opitmum
- opptimum
- optimmu
- optimmum
- optimumm
- optiumm
- optmium
- opttimum
- otpimum
- potimum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of optimum - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "optimum", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).