photomaton
\fo.to.ma.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“photomaton” is uncommon French (frequency #65,408 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,408
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cabine automatique de photographie d'identité à développement instantané, installées dans les gares, le métro, les centres commerciaux ou les administrations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-photomaton · photomaton · French
photomaton · rank #65,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,408
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH phonologique
Nearest frequency peer: phonologique (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “photomaton”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- phonographe
phonographe
34,595 corpus weight
- phonologique
phonologique
34,594 corpus weight
- photomaton
photomaton
34,593 corpus weight
- pickpockets
pickpockets
34,592 corpus weight
- Pierron
Pierron
34,591 corpus weight
- pill
pill
34,590 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “photomaton” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | photomaton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.to.ma.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “photomaton” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
photomaton is uncommon French at frequency #65,408 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.to.ma.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
photomaton doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is photomaton, spelled P-H-O-T-O-M-A-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Cabine automatique de photographie d'identité à développement instantané, installées dans les gares, le métro, les centres commerciaux ou les administrations.
- 2Photo d’identité obtenue avec cet appareil.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.