romancier
\ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sje\
The verdict
“romancier” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,682. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,682
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auteur d’ouvrages en français, au Moyen Âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-romancier · romancier · French
romancier · rank #13,682 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,682
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rico
Nearest frequency peer: rico (-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 « romancier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- retenues
retenues
86,322 corpus weight
- revendiquer
revendiquer
86,321 corpus weight
- rico
rico
86,320 corpus weight
- romancier
romancier
86,319 corpus weight
- récompenser
récompenser
86,318 corpus weight
- réduites
réduites
86,317 corpus weight
What this shows « romancier » 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 | romancier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « romancier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around romancier (IPA \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,682 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for romancier, with forms such as "ormancier", "rmoancier", and "roamncier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "romancière", "romanciers", "romance", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is romancier, spelled R-O-M-A-N-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Auteur d’ouvrages en français, au Moyen Âge.
- 2Auteur qui écrit des romans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how romancier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une invention de romancier, (…) qui fut lui-même un jongleur et qui (…) resta des années, vers le début du XIIIᵉ siècle, au service d’un haut baron.
Aujourd’hui plus que jamais, les romanciers disposent de ces effets, et ils sont dans leur droit ; car la nature s’est, de tout temps, permis d’être plus forte qu’eux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ormancier
- rmoancier
- roamncier
- romacnier
- romanccier
- romanceir
- romancierr
- romancire
- romanicer
- romanncier
- rommancier
- romnacier
- rromancier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of romancier - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).