cafard
\ka.faʁ\
The verdict
“cafard” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,916. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,916
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est faux dévot, hypocrite, bigot, mécréant
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafard · cafard · French
cafard · rank #25,916 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,916
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Bryant
Nearest frequency peer: Bryant (-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 « cafard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bourassa
Bourassa
74,088 corpus weight
- bourrer
bourrer
74,087 corpus weight
- Bryant
Bryant
74,086 corpus weight
- cafard
cafard
74,085 corpus weight
- cahors
cahors
74,084 corpus weight
- calotte
calotte
74,083 corpus weight
What this shows « cafard » 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 | cafard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.faʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cafard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cafard (IPA \ka.faʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,916 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est faux dévot, hypocrite, bigot, mécréant".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cafard, with forms such as "acfard", "caafrd", and "cafadr". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "card", "canard", "canari", and more, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cafard, spelled C-A-F-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui est faux dévot, hypocrite, bigot, mécréant
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cafard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Si mes camarades savent ceci, se dit Lucien, gare au deuxième duel ; les épithètes de cafard vont pleuvoir sur moi. Mais comment le sauraient-ils ? ils ne voient pas ce monde-ci ; tout au plus le colonel par ses espions ; et, ma foi, tant mieux : cafard vaut mieux que républicain. »
— Un grand artiste, aujourd’hui, c’est un prince qui n’est pas titré. C’est la gloire et la fortune, les deux plus grands avantages sociaux, après la vertu, ajouta-t-il d’un petit ton cafard.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acfard
- caafrd
- cafadr
- cafardd
- cafarrd
- caffard
- cafrad
- ccafard
- cfaard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cafard - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).