cahors
\ka.ɔʁ\
The verdict
“cahors” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,917
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin de la région de Cahors utilisant surtout le cépage cot que l'on nomme malbec dans le Lot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cahors · cahors · French
cahors · rank #25,917 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,917
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cafard
Nearest frequency peer: cafard (-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 « cahors »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- caméléon
caméléon
74,082 corpus weight
What this shows « cahors » 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 | cahors |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cahors »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cahors (IPA \ka.ɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,917 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cahors, with forms such as "achors", "cahhors", and "cahorrs". 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, "cors", "chers", "chars", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 cahors, spelled C-A-H-O-R-S.
Definition
- 1Vin de la région de Cahors utilisant surtout le cépage cot que l'on nomme malbec dans le Lot.
- 2Synonyme de jurançon noir qui est le nom officiel de ce cépage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cahors appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qui n’a jamais entendu parler de cahors, de madiran, ou encore des vins du Bergeracois, le terroir le plus septentrional du Sud-Ouest, situé dans le prolongement du plateau de Saint-Émilion ?
Vous nous donnerez aussi une bouteille de cahors.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- achors
- cahhors
- cahorrs
- cahorss
- cahosr
- cahros
- caohrs
- ccahors
- chaors
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cahors - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "cahors", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).