ramen
\ʁa.mɛn\
The verdict
“ramen” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,548
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mets japonais d’origine chinoise constitué de nouilles dans un bouillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ramen · ramen · French
ramen · rank #47,548 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,548
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racontés
Nearest frequency peer: racontés (-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 « ramen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pénicilline
pénicilline
52,456 corpus weight
- racontés
racontés
52,454 corpus weight
- ramen
ramen
52,453 corpus weight
- rameurs
rameurs
52,452 corpus weight
- rams
rams
52,451 corpus weight
- randonneur
randonneur
52,450 corpus weight
What this shows « ramen » 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 | ramen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ramen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ramen (IPA \ʁa.mɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,548 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mets japonais d’origine chinoise constitué de nouilles dans un bouillon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ramen, with forms such as "armen", "raemn", and "ramenn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ren", "rien", "Rome", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ramen, spelled R-A-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Mets japonais d’origine chinoise constitué de nouilles dans un bouillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ramen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ramen sont une préparation à base de nouilles et de bouillon d’origine chinoise, mais que les Japonais mangent couramment le midi, est en train de dire M. Ozu en élevant dans les airs une quantité impressionnante de pâtes qu’il vient de tremper dans l’eau froide.
Marie avait si faim qu’elle se sentait défaillir. Jason accepta d’avaler en vitesse des ramen dans une gargote de la gare de Chiba.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- armen
- raemn
- ramenn
- rammen
- ramne
- rmaen
- rramen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ramen - 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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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