romanesque
\ʁɔ.ma.nɛsk\
The verdict
“romanesque” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,268
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient du roman ; qui est merveilleux comme les aventures de roman, ou exalté comme les personnages de roman, comme les sentiments qu’on leur prête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-romanesque · romanesque · French
romanesque · rank #20,268 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,268
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retiennent
Nearest frequency peer: retiennent (-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 « romanesque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- représentat…
représentatives
79,736 corpus weight
- ressortent
ressortent
79,735 corpus weight
- retiennent
retiennent
79,734 corpus weight
- romanesque
romanesque
79,733 corpus weight
- routières
routières
79,732 corpus weight
- réalisable
réalisable
79,731 corpus weight
What this shows « romanesque » 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 | romanesque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ma.nɛsk\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « romanesque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around romanesque (IPA \ʁɔ.ma.nɛsk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,268 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui tient du roman ; qui est merveilleux comme les aventures de roman, ou exalté comme les personnages de roman, comme les sentiments qu’on leur prête.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for romanesque, with forms such as "ormanesque", "rmoanesque", and "roamnesque". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "romantique", "romanesques", 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 romanesque, spelled R-O-M-A-N-E-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui tient du roman ; qui est merveilleux comme les aventures de roman, ou exalté comme les personnages de roman, comme les sentiments qu’on leur prête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how romanesque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'histoire de Diana Spencer, pour être romanesque, n'est pas féerique.
Maintenant, toutes les jeunes filles, romanesques ou non, peuvent imaginer dans quelle impatience vécut Modeste pendant quelques jours !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ormanesque
- rmoanesque
- roamnesque
- romaensque
- romaneqsue
- romanesqeu
- romanesqque
- romanessque
- romanesuqe
- romannesque
- romanseque
- rommanesque
- romnaesque
- rromanesque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of romanesque - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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