ottomane
\ɔ.tɔ.man\
The verdict
“ottomane” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,551
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de grand siège, avec ou sans dossier, où plusieurs personnes peuvent être assises à la fois, attribué autrefois à la façon supposée des Turcs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ottomane · ottomane · French
ottomane · rank #27,551 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,551
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orbites
Nearest frequency peer: orbites (-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 « ottomane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Odin
Odin
72,453 corpus weight
- orbites
orbites
72,451 corpus weight
- ottomane
ottomane
72,450 corpus weight
- ow
ow
72,448 corpus weight
- Pandora
Pandora
72,447 corpus weight
- pantoufles
pantoufles
72,446 corpus weight
What this shows « ottomane » 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 | ottomane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.tɔ.man\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ottomane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ottomane (IPA \ɔ.tɔ.man\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,551 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sorte de grand siège, avec ou sans dossier, où plusieurs personnes peuvent être assises à la fois, attribué autrefois à la façon supposée des Turcs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ottomane, with forms such as "otomane", "ototmane", and "ottmoane". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ottomans", "ottoman", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ottomane, spelled O-T-T-O-M-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de grand siège, avec ou sans dossier, où plusieurs personnes peuvent être assises à la fois, attribué autrefois à la façon supposée des Turcs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ottomane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'heureux Chevalier me releva, et mon pardon fut scellé sur cette même ottomane où vous et moi scellâmes si gaiement et de la même manière notre éternelle rupture.
Après avoir achevé ce grand ouvrage, je courus avec mes vers chez ma bien-aimée. Je la trouvai seule dans un négligé charmant, assise sur une ottomane.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otomane
- ototmane
- ottmoane
- ottoamne
- ottomaen
- ottomanne
- ottommane
- ottomnae
- totomane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ottomane - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).