cadeaux
\ka.do\
The verdict
“cadeaux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,441. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,441
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cadeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadeaux · cadeaux · French
cadeaux · rank #3,441 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,441
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Bombe
Nearest frequency peer: Bombe (-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 « cadeaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attentat
attentat
96,563 corpus weight
- Barcelone
Barcelone
96,562 corpus weight
- Bombe
Bombe
96,561 corpus weight
- cadeaux
cadeaux
96,560 corpus weight
- cadres
cadres
96,559 corpus weight
- capables
capables
96,558 corpus weight
What this shows « cadeaux » 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 | cadeaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cadeaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cadeaux (IPA \ka.do\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,441 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cadeau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cadeaux, with forms such as "acdeaux", "cadaeux", and "caddeaux". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "canaux", "caveau", "ciseaux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cadeaux, spelled C-A-D-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cadeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cadeaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son séjour se termina à Beauté-sur-Marne ; Charles IV en fut si enchanté qu’il s’y déclara guéri de sa goutte ; on y fit de somptueux échanges de cadeaux : coupes d’or garnies de pierreries et d’émaux champlevés, flacons, aiguières, hanaps d’or et gobelets ; jusqu’au moment où, à la veille de se faire leurs adieux, l’empereur donne au roi un rubis et un d…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acdeaux
- cadaeux
- caddeaux
- cadeauxx
- cadeaxu
- cadeuax
- caedaux
- ccadeaux
- cdaeaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cadeaux - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).