ramadan
\ʁa.ma.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“ramadan” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,773. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,773
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neuvième mois du calendrier musulman, que les fidèles consacrent à un jeûne de l’aube à la tombée de la nuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ramadan · ramadan · French
ramadan · rank #10,773 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,773
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radicalement
Nearest frequency peer: radicalement (-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 « ramadan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- périphérique
périphérique
89,231 corpus weight
- racheté
racheté
89,230 corpus weight
- radicalement
radicalement
89,229 corpus weight
- ramadan
ramadan
89,228 corpus weight
- rapporteur
rapporteur
89,226 corpus weight
- remédier
remédier
89,225 corpus weight
What this shows « ramadan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ramadan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.ma.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ramadan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ramadan (IPA \ʁa.ma.dɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,773 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ramadan, with forms such as "armadan", "raamdan", and "ramaadn". 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ramadan, spelled R-A-M-A-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1Neuvième mois du calendrier musulman, que les fidèles consacrent à un jeûne de l’aube à la tombée de la nuit.
- 2Jeûne musulman lui-même, quatrième pilier de l’Islam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ramadan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis le 24 janvier nous sommes en ramadan, neuvième mois de l’année lunaire mahométane, pendant lequel tout bon musulman s’abstient de manger, de boire, de fumer, bref, de toute jouissance charnelle, depuis l’aube jusqu’au coucher du soleil.
— J’ai plaisir aussi à vous conter cette autre savoureuse aventure de notre excellent Pierre : son atterrissage forcé dans une localité du Béloutchistan en un jour de ramadan où tout étranger surpris dehors était immédiatement massacré.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- armadan
- raamdan
- ramaadn
- ramadann
- ramaddan
- ramadna
- ramdaan
- rammadan
- rmaadan
- rramadan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ramadan - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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