Wimbledon
The verdict
“Wimbledon” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,593
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de Londres en Angleterre, situé dans le district de Merton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wimbledon · Wimbledon · French
Wimbledon · rank #17,593 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,593
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wauquiez
Nearest frequency peer: Wauquiez (-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 “Wimbledon”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- visionnaire
visionnaire
82,411 corpus weight
- volées
volées
82,410 corpus weight
- Wauquiez
Wauquiez
82,409 corpus weight
- Wimbledon
Wimbledon
82,408 corpus weight
- year
year
82,407 corpus weight
- Yvan
Yvan
82,406 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Wimbledon” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wimbledon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Wimbledon” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Wimbledon, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,593 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wimbledon, with forms such as "iwmbledon", "wibmledon", and "wimbbledon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Wimbledon, spelled W-I-M-B-L-E-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Quartier de Londres en Angleterre, situé dans le district de Merton.
- 2Compétition internationale de tennis jouée à Wimbledon, qui est disputée chaque année par des joueurs professionnels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wimbledon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis deux ans, Ons Jabeur est devenue « Onstoppable », un surnom qui résume la trajectoire, inarrêtable, de celle qui s’est qualifiée jeudi à Wimbledon pour sa première finale d’un tournoi du Grand Chelem,, et qui se veut « une source d’inspiration » pour son pays, le monde arabe et le continent africain.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwmbledon
- wibmledon
- wimbbledon
- wimbeldon
- wimbldeon
- wimbleddon
- wimbledno
- wimbledonn
- wimbleodn
- wimblledon
- wimlbedon
- wimmbledon
- wmibledon
- wwimbledon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wimbledon - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Wimbledon", 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
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- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #17,593 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.