Ramsay
\ʁam.sɛ\
The verdict
“Ramsay” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,934
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille écossais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ramsay · Ramsay · French
Ramsay · rank #29,934 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,934
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rae
Nearest frequency peer: rae (-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 « Ramsay »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- radioactive
radioactive
70,070 corpus weight
- radiologie
radiologie
70,069 corpus weight
- rae
rae
70,068 corpus weight
- Ramsay
Ramsay
70,067 corpus weight
- rasage
rasage
70,066 corpus weight
- rassurés
rassurés
70,065 corpus weight
What this shows « Ramsay » 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 | Ramsay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁam.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ramsay »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Ramsay (IPA \ʁam.sɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,934 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille écossais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ramsay, with forms such as "armsay", "ramasy", and "rammsay". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Ramsey", "rama", "rams", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ramsay, spelled R-A-M-S-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille écossais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ramsay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- armsay
- ramasy
- rammsay
- ramsayy
- ramssay
- ramsya
- rasmay
- rmasay
- rramsay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ramsay - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).