spontanée
\spɔ̃.ta.ne\
The verdict
“spontanée” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,040
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de spontané.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spontanee · spontanée · French
spontanée · rank #15,040 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,040
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spectaculaires
Nearest frequency peer: spectaculaires (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “spontanée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- slim
slim
84,964 corpus weight
- soprano
soprano
84,963 corpus weight
- spectaculai…
spectaculaires
84,962 corpus weight
- spontanée
spontanée
84,961 corpus weight
- spécimens
spécimens
84,960 corpus weight
- statique
statique
84,959 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “spontanée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | spontanée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spɔ̃.ta.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “spontanée” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around spontanée (IPA \spɔ̃.ta.ne\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,040 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de spontané.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for spontanée, with forms such as "psontanée", "sopntanée", and "spnotanée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spontanés", "spontanées", "spontanéité", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is spontanée, spelled S-P-O-N-T-A-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de spontané.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spontanée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La loi des semblables, chez le vulgaire, y est-elle une création spontanée de son intelligence? Alors il faudrait que cette loi fût bien facile à trouver, bien naturelle, bien simple, et qu’elle ne nous eût échappé tant de siècles que grâce à nos habitudes invétérées de tout rendre difficile à force de tout alambiquer, de tout savantiser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psontanée
- sopntanée
- spnotanée
- sponatnée
- sponntanée
- spontanee
- spontaneé
- spontannée
- spontaéne
- spontnaée
- sponttanée
- spotnanée
- sppontanée
- sspontanée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spontanée - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spontanée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "spontanée". Here's where to go from here.
- "spontanée" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "spontanés". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,040 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.