xénon
\ɡze.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“xénon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,870
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 54 et de symbole Xe qui fait partie des gaz nobles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xenon · xénon · French
xénon · rank #48,870 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,870
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH yum
Nearest frequency peer: yum (+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 « xénon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- wolves
wolves
51,135 corpus weight
- wren
wren
51,134 corpus weight
- xénon
xénon
51,131 corpus weight
- yum
yum
51,130 corpus weight
- yéménites
yéménites
51,129 corpus weight
- éluder
éluder
51,127 corpus weight
What this shows « xénon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xénon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡze.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « xénon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around xénon (IPA \ɡze.nɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,870 among 62 “X” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for xénon, with forms such as "xenon", "xnéon", and "xxénon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is xénon, spelled X-É-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 54 et de symbole Xe qui fait partie des gaz nobles.
- 2Gaz monoatomique de cet élément (Xe) incolore, inodore et peu réactif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how xénon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le xénon présente divers isotopes parmi lesquels nous retiendrons le ¹³⁰Xe, un isotope stable et non radiogénique, et le ¹²⁹Xe qui est un isotope du xénon produit par la désintégration radioactive de l’iode 129 (¹²⁹I), isotope contenu dans les supernova qui ont contribué à la formation de la planète Terre.
Un journal parisien signalait que Ramsay avait « découvert cinq nouveaux gaz dans l’atmosphère en moins de cinq ans : l’argon, l’hélium, le néon, le krypton et le xénon ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- xenon
- xnéon
- xxénon
- xénno
- xénnon
- xénonn
- xéonn
- éxnon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of xénon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).