cailles
\kɑj\
The verdict
“cailles” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,169
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cailles · cailles · French
cailles · rank #41,169 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,169
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calment
Nearest frequency peer: calment (+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 « cailles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- béat
béat
58,835 corpus weight
- bédouins
bédouins
58,834 corpus weight
- cailles
cailles
58,832 corpus weight
- calment
calment
58,831 corpus weight
- caricaturale
caricaturale
58,830 corpus weight
- carlin
carlin
58,829 corpus weight
What this shows « cailles » 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 | cailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cailles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cailles (IPA \kɑj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,169 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de caille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cailles, with forms such as "acilles", "cailels", and "cailes". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "calle", "cales", "celles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cailles, spelled C-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait des gluaux perfectionnés pour les alouettes et les cailles, il tapait à coup de pierres dans les épaisses nuées de sansonnets, que semblent apporter les grands vents d’automne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acilles
- cailels
- cailes
- cailless
- caillse
- caliles
- ccailles
- cialles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cailles - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).