Calabre
\ka.labʁ\
The verdict
“Calabre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,722. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,722
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région du sud-ouest de l’Italie, formant une péninsule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calabre · Calabre · French
Calabre · rank #32,722 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,722
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Bérenger
Nearest frequency peer: Bérenger (-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 « Calabre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bureautique
bureautique
67,283 corpus weight
- bénéficiait
bénéficiait
67,281 corpus weight
- Bérenger
Bérenger
67,280 corpus weight
- Calabre
Calabre
67,279 corpus weight
- Cali
Cali
67,278 corpus weight
- cane
cane
67,276 corpus weight
What this shows « Calabre » 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 | Calabre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.labʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Calabre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Calabre (IPA \ka.labʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,722 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région du sud-ouest de l’Italie, formant une péninsule.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Calabre, with forms such as "aclabre", "caalbre", and "calabbre". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Clare", "claire", "cambre", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Calabre, spelled C-A-L-A-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Région du sud-ouest de l’Italie, formant une péninsule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Calabre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De Brancaleone à Monasterace, tous les villages de la côte est de la Calabre connus pour être les fiefs des dix grandes « familles » de la mafia calabraise, ont été bouclés et la plupart des individus recherchés, arrêtés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclabre
- caalbre
- calabbre
- calaber
- calabrre
- calarbe
- calbare
- callabre
- ccalabre
- claabre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Calabre - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).