diff --git a/web/src/app/not-found.tsx b/web/src/app/not-found.tsx
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+import Link from "next/link";
+import { type Metadata } from "next";
+import { SiteChrome } from "@/components/site-chrome";
+import { DidYouMean } from "@/components/not-found-extras";
+
+export const metadata: Metadata = {
+  title: "Page not found",
+  description: "This page does not exist. Head back to the Vocalinux home page.",
+  // Overrides the layout's "index, follow" so it agrees with Next's noindex.
+  robots: { index: false, follow: true },
+};
+
+const quickLinks = [
+  { href: "/install/", label: "Install guides" },
+  { href: "/faq/", label: "FAQ" },
+  { href: "/compare/", label: "Compare engines" },
+  { href: "/troubleshooting/", label: "Troubleshooting" },
+  { href: "/changelog/", label: "Changelog" },
+];
+
+// 404 is a fine number. These are all true; check them in a shell.
+const stats = [
+  {
+    title: "chmod 404",
+    body: "r-- --- r--. Owner and others can read, the group gets nothing, and nobody can write. Fitting for a page that isn't there.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "exit 404",
+    body: "Exit statuses are 8 bits, so a shell reports $? = 148 (404 mod 256). Even the error code got truncated.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "0x194 · 0o624 · 0b110010100",
+    body: "404 in hex, octal and binary. None of them is a valid URL on this site either.",
+  },
+];
+
+export default function NotFound() {
+  return (
+    <SiteChrome variant="page">
+      <div className="page-main">
+        <div className="shell nf">
+          <section className="nf-hero">
+            <p className="nf-kicker">HTTP 404 · No such file or directory</p>
+            <h1>
+              This page is <em>not in your $PATH</em>.
+            </h1>
+            <p className="nf-lede">
+              The link is broken, the page moved, or the URL picked up a typo
+              on the way here. Vocalinux can type what you say, but it can&apos;t
+              type a page that doesn&apos;t exist.
+            </p>
+          </section>
+
+          <section className="nf-stats" aria-labelledby="nf-stats-title">
+            <h2 id="nf-stats-title">Fun facts about 404</h2>
+            <div className="nf-stat-grid">
+              {stats.map((stat) => (
+                <article className="nf-stat" key={stat.title}>
+                  <h3>{stat.title}</h3>
+                  <p>{stat.body}</p>
+                </article>
+              ))}
+            </div>
+          </section>
+
+          <div className="nf-next">
+            <DidYouMean />
+            <div className="nf-actions">
+              <Link className="btn btn-primary" href="/">
+                Back to home
+              </Link>
+              <Link className="btn btn-secondary" href="/install/">
+                Install Vocalinux
+              </Link>
+            </div>
+            <nav className="nf-links" aria-label="Popular pages">
+              {quickLinks.map((link) => (
+                <Link key={link.href} href={link.href}>
+                  {link.label}
+                </Link>
+              ))}
+            </nav>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </SiteChrome>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/web/src/components/__tests__/not-found-extras.test.tsx b/web/src/components/__tests__/not-found-extras.test.tsx
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+import React from 'react';
+import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { DidYouMean, suggestPage } from '../not-found-extras';
+
+const pages = ['/install/', '/install/ubuntu/', '/install/fedora/', '/faq/', '/compare/'];
+
+describe('suggestPage', () => {
+  it('suggests the closest page for a typo', () => {
+    expect(suggestPage('/install/ubunt', pages)).toBe('/install/ubuntu/');
+    expect(suggestPage('/INSTALL/FEDORA', pages)).toBe('/install/fedora/');
+    expect(suggestPage('/compar', pages)).toBe('/compare/');
+  });
+
+  it('suggests nothing for an unrelated path', () => {
+    expect(suggestPage('/wp-admin/setup-config.php', pages)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DidYouMean', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    window.history.pushState({}, '', '/');
+  });
+
+  it('links to the closest page for the current URL', async () => {
+    window.history.pushState({}, '', '/install/ubunt');
+    render(<DidYouMean />);
+    // Jest's next/link ignores trailingSlash, so check the visible path.
+    expect(await screen.findByRole('link')).toHaveTextContent('/install/ubuntu/');
+  });
+
+  it('does not crash on a malformed percent-escape', () => {
+    window.history.pushState({}, '', '/%FF/');
+    expect(() => render(<DidYouMean />)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/components/not-found-extras.tsx b/web/src/components/not-found-extras.tsx
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+"use client";
+
+import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
+import Link from "next/link";
+import { footerGroups, mobileExtraNav, pageNav } from "@/lib/site-nav";
+
+// Static export serves one 404.html for every missing path, so the requested
+// URL is only known after mount. The first render shows nothing extra to keep
+// hydration clean.
+
+function useMissingPath(): string | null {
+  const [path, setPath] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const { pathname } = window.location;
+    if (pathname && pathname !== "/404/" && pathname !== "/404.html") {
+      // Malformed escapes such as /%FF/ make decodeURIComponent throw.
+      let decoded = pathname;
+      try {
+        decoded = decodeURIComponent(pathname);
+      } catch {
+        // Keep the raw path; it still gets a suggestion attempt.
+      }
+      setPath(decoded.slice(0, 80));
+    }
+  }, []);
+  return path;
+}
+
+// Every internal page the site links from its header and footer.
+const knownPages = Array.from(
+  new Set(
+    [...pageNav, ...mobileExtraNav, ...footerGroups.flatMap((g) => g.links)]
+      .map((link) => link.href)
+      .filter((href) => href.startsWith("/") && !href.startsWith("/#") && href !== "/"),
+  ),
+);
+
+function editDistance(a: string, b: string): number {
+  const row = Array.from({ length: b.length + 1 }, (_, i) => i);
+  for (let i = 1; i <= a.length; i++) {
+    let prev = row[0];
+    row[0] = i;
+    for (let j = 1; j <= b.length; j++) {
+      const current = row[j];
+      row[j] = Math.min(row[j] + 1, row[j - 1] + 1, prev + (a[i - 1] === b[j - 1] ? 0 : 1));
+      prev = current;
+    }
+  }
+  return row[b.length];
+}
+
+const normalize = (path: string) => `/${path.toLowerCase().replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, "")}/`;
+
+export function suggestPage(path: string, pages: string[] = knownPages): string | null {
+  const target = normalize(path);
+  let best: { href: string; distance: number } | null = null;
+  for (const href of pages) {
+    const distance = editDistance(target, href);
+    if (!best || distance < best.distance) best = { href, distance };
+  }
+  if (!best) return null;
+  // Distance 0 is a case or trailing-slash slip (Pages is case-sensitive).
+  // Otherwise it must be close enough to be a typo, not a different page.
+  return best.distance <= Math.max(2, Math.floor(best.href.length / 3)) ? best.href : null;
+}
+
+export function DidYouMean() {
+  const path = useMissingPath();
+  const suggestion = path ? suggestPage(path) : null;
+  if (!suggestion) return null;
+  return (
+    <p className="nf-suggest">
+      Did you mean <Link href={suggestion}>{suggestion}</Link>?
+    </p>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/web/src/styles/globals.css b/web/src/styles/globals.css
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--- a/web/src/styles/globals.css
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@@ -1741,6 +1741,103 @@
     font-size: 0.95rem;
   }
 
+  /* 404 page */
+  .nf {
+    display: grid;
+    gap: 3rem;
+    padding: 3.5rem 0 5.5rem;
+  }
+
+  .nf-kicker {
+    margin: 0 0 1rem;
+    color: var(--brand-dark);
+    font-family: var(--font-mono);
+    font-size: 0.75rem;
+    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+  }
+
+  .nf-hero h1 {
+    margin: 0;
+    font-size: clamp(2.6rem, 7vw, 5.2rem);
+  }
+
+  .nf-lede {
+    margin: 1.2rem 0 0;
+    color: var(--muted-copy);
+    font-size: 1.1rem;
+    line-height: 1.65;
+  }
+
+  .nf-suggest {
+    margin: 1rem 0 0;
+    font-size: 1.05rem;
+  }
+
+  .nf-next > :first-child {
+    margin-top: 0;
+  }
+
+  .nf-suggest a,
+  .nf-links a {
+    color: var(--brand);
+    font-weight: 600;
+  }
+
+  .nf-actions {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
+    gap: 0.75rem;
+    margin-top: 1.8rem;
+  }
+
+  .nf-links {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
+    gap: 0.4rem 1.2rem;
+    margin-top: 1.4rem;
+    font-size: 0.95rem;
+  }
+
+  .nf-stats h2 {
+    margin: 0;
+    font-size: clamp(1.5rem, 3vw, 1.85rem);
+  }
+
+  .nf-stat-grid {
+    display: grid;
+    gap: 1rem;
+    margin-top: 1.2rem;
+  }
+
+  .nf-stat {
+    padding: 1.1rem 1.2rem 1.2rem;
+    background: var(--paper-bright);
+    border: 1px solid var(--line);
+    border-radius: var(--radius-sm);
+  }
+
+  .nf-stat h3 {
+    margin: 0;
+    font-family: var(--font-mono);
+    font-size: 1rem;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    letter-spacing: 0;
+    overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+  }
+
+  .nf-stat p {
+    margin: 0.5rem 0 0;
+    color: var(--muted-copy);
+    font-size: 0.95rem;
+  }
+
+  @media (min-width: 760px) {
+    .nf-stat-grid {
+      grid-template-columns: repeat(3, minmax(0, 1fr));
+    }
+  }
+
   @keyframes halo {
     0% { opacity: 0.85; transform: scale(0.55); }
     70%, 100% { opacity: 0; transform: scale(1.7); }