tramways
\tʁa.mwɛ\
The verdict
“tramways” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,124
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tramway.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tramways · tramways · French
tramways · rank #22,124 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,124
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traiteur
Nearest frequency peer: traiteur (-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 « tramways »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- TPS
TPS
77,880 corpus weight
- tragédies
tragédies
77,879 corpus weight
- traiteur
traiteur
77,878 corpus weight
- tramways
tramways
77,877 corpus weight
- transitions
transitions
77,876 corpus weight
- traumatismes
traumatismes
77,875 corpus weight
What this shows « tramways » 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 | tramways |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.mwɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tramways »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tramways (IPA \tʁa.mwɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,124 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tramway.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tramways, with forms such as "rtamways", "tarmways", and "tramawys". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tramway", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tramways, spelled T-R-A-M-W-A-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tramway.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtamways
- tarmways
- tramawys
- trammways
- tramwasy
- tramwayss
- tramwayys
- tramwways
- tramwyas
- trawmays
- trmaways
- trramways
- ttramways
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tramways - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "tramways", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).