Cadix
\ka.diks\
The verdict
“Cadix” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,386. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,386
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville portuaire d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadix · Cadix · French
Cadix · rank #31,386 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,386
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénédictins
Nearest frequency peer: bénédictins (-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 « Cadix »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buster
buster
68,618 corpus weight
- bénédictins
bénédictins
68,616 corpus weight
- Cadix
Cadix
68,615 corpus weight
- caillot
caillot
68,614 corpus weight
- canap
canap
68,613 corpus weight
- cancéreux
cancéreux
68,612 corpus weight
What this shows « Cadix » 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 | Cadix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.diks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cadix »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Cadix (IPA \ka.diks\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,386 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cadix, with forms such as "acdix", "caddix", and "cadixx". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CDI", "cai", "caïd", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cadix, spelled C-A-D-I-X.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville portuaire d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
- 2Province d’Espagne située dans la communauté autonome d’Andalousie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cadix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Byron a merveilleusement caractérisé la physionomie de Cadix en une seule touche : « Brillante Cadix, qui t’élèves vers le ciel du milieu du bleu foncé de la mer. »
En 1585, des escadres anglaises avaient attaqué, sans déclaration de guerre, Saint-Domingue et Carthagène. Une année plus tard, Drake insulta Lisbonne et détruisit, à Cadix, une flotte entière de navires de transport.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acdix
- caddix
- cadixx
- cadxi
- caidx
- ccadix
- cdaix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cadix - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).