cafards
\ka.faʁ\
The verdict
“cafards” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,137
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cafard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafards · cafards · French
cafards · rank #24,137 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,137
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CARDS
Nearest frequency peer: CARDS (+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 « cafards »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Brussels
Brussels
75,868 corpus weight
- bruyère
bruyère
75,867 corpus weight
- cafards
cafards
75,864 corpus weight
- CARDS
CARDS
75,863 corpus weight
- cedex
cedex
75,862 corpus weight
- Chamonix
Chamonix
75,860 corpus weight
What this shows « cafards » 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 | cafards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.faʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cafards »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cafards (IPA \ka.faʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,137 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cafard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cafards, with forms such as "acfards", "caafrds", and "cafadrs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "CARDS", "canard", "canards", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cafards, spelled C-A-F-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cafard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acfards
- caafrds
- cafadrs
- cafardds
- cafardss
- cafarrds
- cafarsd
- caffards
- cafrads
- ccafards
- cfaards
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cafards - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).