Cadillac
\ka.di.jak\
The verdict
“Cadillac” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,659
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune située dans le département de la Gironde, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadillac · Cadillac · French
Cadillac · rank #20,659 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH camouflage
Nearest frequency peer: camouflage (+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 « Cadillac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buddy
buddy
79,345 corpus weight
- cachemire
cachemire
79,344 corpus weight
- Cadillac
Cadillac
79,342 corpus weight
- camouflage
camouflage
79,341 corpus weight
- carcasse
carcasse
79,340 corpus weight
- carpe
carpe
79,339 corpus weight
What this shows « Cadillac » 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 | Cadillac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.di.jak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cadillac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Cadillac (IPA \ka.di.jak\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,659 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cadillac, with forms such as "acdillac", "caddillac", and "cadilac". 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, "Camilla", "casillas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Cadillac, spelled C-A-D-I-L-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune située dans le département de la Gironde, en France.
- 2Localité du département de la Dordogne, en France.
- 3Ancienne ville québécoise, désormais secteur de la ville de Rouyn-Noranda ^([1]) depuis le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2002.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cadillac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cheminement instinctif (pas encore balisé) entre Langoiran et Cadillac.
Cadillac, ville d’environ trois mille habitants, aujourd’hui comme en 1940, fut la dernière station de sa vie asilaire.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acdillac
- caddillac
- cadilac
- cadilalc
- cadillacc
- cadillca
- cadlilac
- caidllac
- ccadillac
- cdaillac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cadillac - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Cadillac", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).