Winnipeg
\wi.ni.pɛɡ\
The verdict
“Winnipeg” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,190. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,190
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Manitoba, province du Canada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-winnipeg · Winnipeg · French
Winnipeg · rank #19,190 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,190
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Waterloo
Nearest frequency peer: Waterloo (-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 « Winnipeg »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- volaille
volaille
80,814 corpus weight
- vélodrome
vélodrome
80,813 corpus weight
- Waterloo
Waterloo
80,812 corpus weight
- Winnipeg
Winnipeg
80,811 corpus weight
- wu
wu
80,810 corpus weight
- échangent
échangent
80,809 corpus weight
What this shows « Winnipeg » 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 | Winnipeg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wi.ni.pɛɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Winnipeg »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Winnipeg (IPA \wi.ni.pɛɡ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,190 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Winnipeg, with forms such as "iwnnipeg", "wininpeg", and "winipeg". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Winnie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Winnipeg, spelled W-I-N-N-I-P-E-G.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Manitoba, province du Canada.
- 2Gouvernement du Manitoba, basé dans cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Winnipeg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La famille Theriault a transformé une laveuse en surfaceuse de glace pour confectionner une patinoire dans sa cour arrière, à Winnipeg.
À Winnipeg, le salon d’accueil est meublé d’élégants fauteuils-hamacs en cuir réalisés par les concepteurs américains William Katavolos, Ross Littell et Douglas Kelley.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwnnipeg
- wininpeg
- winipeg
- winniepg
- winnipegg
- winnipge
- winnippeg
- winnpieg
- wninipeg
- wwinnipeg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Winnipeg - 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 "Winnipeg", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).