Rwanda
\ʁwɑ̃.da\
The verdict
“Rwanda” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,231
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays africain, qui partage des frontières avec, au nord, l’Ouganda, à l’est, la Tanzanie, au sud, le Burundi, à l’ouest, la République démocratique du Congo. Sa capitale est Kigali.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rwanda · Rwanda · French
Rwanda · rank #10,231 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,231
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Ronaldo
Nearest frequency peer: Ronaldo (-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 « Rwanda »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- revienne
revienne
89,773 corpus weight
- rigoler
rigoler
89,772 corpus weight
- Ronaldo
Ronaldo
89,771 corpus weight
- Rwanda
Rwanda
89,770 corpus weight
- réacteur
réacteur
89,769 corpus weight
- réalisent
réalisent
89,768 corpus weight
What this shows « Rwanda » 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 | Rwanda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁwɑ̃.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Rwanda »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Rwanda (IPA \ʁwɑ̃.da\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,231 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays africain, qui partage des frontières avec, au nord, l’Ouganda, à l’est, la Tanzanie, au sud, le Burundi, à l’ouest, la République démocratique du Congo. Sa capitale est Kigali.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Rwanda, with forms such as "rawnda", "rrwanda", and "rwadna". 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, "rwandais", "Rand", "rana", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Rwanda, spelled R-W-A-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1Pays africain, qui partage des frontières avec, au nord, l’Ouganda, à l’est, la Tanzanie, au sud, le Burundi, à l’ouest, la République démocratique du Congo. Sa capitale est Kigali.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rwanda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette citation montre le degré d'hostilité où en étaient arrivés les Tutsis et les Hutus au Rwanda. Les Belges essayèrent de tempérer cette situation explosive, sans y réussir cependant.
(11) L’orthographe (anglaise) de certains mots, principalement des noms de ville ou de pays, ne correspond pas à leur prononciation. Ils sont souvent écrits dans leur graphie originale ou leur prononciation anglaise. Par exemple "Istanbul" au lieu d’Istanboul, "Rwanda" au lieu de Rouanda, "Burundi" au lieu de Bouroundi, "Wallis" au lieu de Ouallis (pourqu…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rawnda
- rrwanda
- rwadna
- rwanad
- rwandda
- rwannda
- rwnada
- rwwanda
- wranda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Rwanda - 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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