autocar
\o.to.kaʁ\
The verdict
“autocar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,456
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule de transport, pouvant compter jusqu’à une cinquantaine de places assises, qui effectue soit du transport en commun sur des lignes régulières, soit du transport scolaire, soit du transport ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-autocar · autocar · French
autocar · rank #23,456 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,456
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auch
Nearest frequency peer: auch (-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 « autocar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- astéroïde
astéroïde
76,548 corpus weight
- Atlantis
Atlantis
76,547 corpus weight
- auch
auch
76,546 corpus weight
- autocar
autocar
76,545 corpus weight
- autographes
autographes
76,544 corpus weight
- avare
avare
76,543 corpus weight
What this shows « autocar » 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 | autocar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autocar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around autocar (IPA \o.to.kaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,456 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Véhicule de transport, pouvant compter jusqu’à une cinquantaine de places assises, qui effectue soit du transport en commun sur des lignes régulières, soit du transport scolaire, soit du transport ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for autocar, with forms such as "atuocar", "auotcar", and "autcoar". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "autour", "autocars", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is autocar, spelled A-U-T-O-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Véhicule de transport, pouvant compter jusqu’à une cinquantaine de places assises, qui effectue soit du transport en commun sur des lignes régulières, soit du transport scolaire, soit du transport de touristes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autocar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai fermé ma gueule, mais je vous l’affirme, inspecteur, quand il est monté dans l’autocar, ce n’était plus ce vieux marqué par trente ans de zonzon, mais un mec tout neuf.
Si vous êtes handicapée mentale et domiciliée dans l’’Yonne, Émile Louis vous emmène faire un tour dans son autocar.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuocar
- auotcar
- autcoar
- autoacr
- autocarr
- autoccar
- autocra
- auttocar
- uatocar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autocar - 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 "autocar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).