Watanabe
\wa.ta.na.be\
The verdict
“Watanabe” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,433
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille japonais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-watanabe · Watanabe · French
Watanabe · rank #49,433 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,433
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wallonnes
Nearest frequency peer: wallonnes (-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 « Watanabe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- volière
volière
50,573 corpus weight
- voteraient
voteraient
50,572 corpus weight
- wallonnes
wallonnes
50,569 corpus weight
- Watanabe
Watanabe
50,568 corpus weight
- wrap
wrap
50,566 corpus weight
- XYZ
XYZ
50,564 corpus weight
What this shows « Watanabe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Watanabe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wa.ta.na.be\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Watanabe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Watanabe (IPA \wa.ta.na.be\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,433 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille japonais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Watanabe, with forms such as "awtanabe", "waatnabe", and "wataanbe". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Watanabe, spelled W-A-T-A-N-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille japonais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awtanabe
- waatnabe
- wataanbe
- watanabbe
- watanaeb
- watanbae
- watannabe
- watnaabe
- wattanabe
- wtaanabe
- wwatanabe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Watanabe - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).