Ottawa
\ɔ.ta.wa\
The verdict
“Ottawa” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,482
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ottawa · Ottawa · French
Ottawa · rank #5,482 · 6 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,482
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ordonné
Nearest frequency peer: ordonné (-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 « Ottawa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mixte
mixte
94,522 corpus weight
- moulin
moulin
94,521 corpus weight
- ordonné
ordonné
94,520 corpus weight
- Ottawa
Ottawa
94,519 corpus weight
- pari
pari
94,518 corpus weight
- plomb
plomb
94,517 corpus weight
What this shows « Ottawa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ottawa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ta.wa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ottawa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Ottawa (IPA \ɔ.ta.wa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,482 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ottawa, with forms such as "otatwa", "otawa", and "ottaaw". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ottawa, spelled O-T-T-A-W-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ottawa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le directeur, Sakay Ottawa, assure ainsi avoir un nouveau poste d’enseignant et sept nouveaux postes d’intervenants à pourvoir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otatwa
- otawa
- ottaaw
- ottawwa
- ottwaa
- totawa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ottawa - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).