Arcachon
\aʁ.ka.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“Arcachon” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,861
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arcachon · Arcachon · French
Arcachon · rank #24,861 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,861
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arf
Nearest frequency peer: arf (+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 « Arcachon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Andalousie
Andalousie
75,144 corpus weight
- annonça
annonça
75,143 corpus weight
- anthropolog…
anthropologue
75,142 corpus weight
- Arcachon
Arcachon
75,140 corpus weight
- arf
arf
75,139 corpus weight
- around
around
75,137 corpus weight
What this shows « Arcachon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arcachon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ka.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arcachon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Arcachon (IPA \aʁ.ka.ʃɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,861 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arcachon, with forms such as "acrachon", "aracchon", and "arcacchon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Arcachon, spelled A-R-C-A-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Arcachon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arcachon est un village d’opéra-comique : un débarcadère rouge, jaune et vert, avec des toits retroussés en pavillon chinois, une lieue de plage couverte de trois rangées de cottages, chalets peints bordés de balcons, pavillons pointus, tourelles gothiques, toits ouvragés en bois colorié. Sur les collines de sable, à l’arrière-garde, entre les pins, sont…
Il songea à ses filles, en ce moment auprès de leur tante à Arcachon, à Pauline, l’aînée, qui lui ressemblait et qui était sa préférée. Et il pleura.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrachon
- aracchon
- arcacchon
- arcachhon
- arcachno
- arcachonn
- arcacohn
- arcahcon
- arccachon
- arccahon
- arrcachon
- racachon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arcachon - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).