techno
\tɛk.no\
The verdict
“techno” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,750. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,750
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical populaire appartenant aux musiques électroniques, le plus souvent instrumental, à quatre temps et faisant appel à des outils numériques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-techno · techno · French
techno · rank #9,750 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,750
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH syndicale
Nearest frequency peer: syndicale (-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 « techno »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suggéré
suggéré
90,254 corpus weight
- syndicale
syndicale
90,252 corpus weight
- techno
techno
90,251 corpus weight
- tentation
tentation
90,250 corpus weight
- terriblement
terriblement
90,249 corpus weight
- terribles
terribles
90,248 corpus weight
What this shows « techno » 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 | techno |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛk.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « techno »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around techno (IPA \tɛk.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,750 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Genre musical populaire appartenant aux musiques électroniques, le plus souvent instrumental, à quatre temps et faisant appel à des outils numériques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for techno, with forms such as "etchno", "tcehno", and "tecchno". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "technos", "tchao", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is techno, spelled T-E-C-H-N-O.
Definition
- 1Genre musical populaire appartenant aux musiques électroniques, le plus souvent instrumental, à quatre temps et faisant appel à des outils numériques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how techno appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour baiser à mort, les back-rooms c'était le paradis. On y passait de la techno ou du vieux krautrock, Amon Düül II revenait à la mode.
La new wave synthétique des années 1980 côtoie la techno glacée de Vitalic et l’électroclash de Miss Kittin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etchno
- tcehno
- tecchno
- techhno
- technno
- techon
- tecnho
- tehcno
- ttechno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of techno - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).