romantique
\ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\
The verdict
“romantique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,889
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rappelle à l’imagination les descriptions des poèmes et des romans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-romantique · romantique · French
romantique · rank #4,889 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,889
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH romaine
Nearest frequency peer: romaine (-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 « romantique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ray
ray
95,115 corpus weight
- romaine
romaine
95,113 corpus weight
- romantique
romantique
95,112 corpus weight
- rugby
rugby
95,111 corpus weight
- senti
senti
95,110 corpus weight
- sexuelles
sexuelles
95,109 corpus weight
What this shows « romantique » 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 | romantique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « romantique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around romantique (IPA \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,889 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for romantique, with forms such as "ormantique", "rmoantique", and "roamntique". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "romantisme", "romantiques", "romanesque", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is romantique, spelled R-O-M-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui rappelle à l’imagination les descriptions des poèmes et des romans.
- 2Relatif au romantisme.
- 3Qui évoque les qualités, les émotions chères aux romantiques.
- 4Idéaliste, où l’imagination l’emporte sur le sens des réalités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how romantique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pouvait le surprendre intrépidement planté sur ses jambes, le nez en l’air, assistant à la chute d’une pierre qu’un maçon ébranle avec un levier en haut d’une muraille, et sans quitter la place que la pierre ne tombât ; et, quand la pierre était tombée, il s’en allait heureux comme un académicien le serait de la chute d’un drame romantique.
En ce siècle romantique, le grand public aussi bien que les scientifiques développent une nomenclature quelque peu chromatique des grandes épidémies : ainsi appelle-t-on la tuberculose « mort blanche » ou « peste blanche ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ormantique
- rmoantique
- roamntique
- romanitque
- romanntique
- romantiqeu
- romantiqque
- romantiuqe
- romantqiue
- romanttique
- romatnique
- rommantique
- romnatique
- rromantique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of romantique - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).