Caleb
The verdict
“Caleb” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,284
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caleb · Caleb · French
Caleb · rank #26,284 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,284
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cachez
Nearest frequency peer: cachez (-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 « Caleb »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Brossard
Brossard
73,720 corpus weight
- béthune
béthune
73,719 corpus weight
- cachez
cachez
73,718 corpus weight
- Caleb
Caleb
73,717 corpus weight
- calle
calle
73,716 corpus weight
- Canet
Canet
73,715 corpus weight
What this shows « Caleb » 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 | Caleb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Caleb »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Caleb, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,284 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Caleb, with forms such as "acleb", "caelb", and "calbe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clé", "club", "clés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Caleb, spelled C-A-L-E-B.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Caleb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On notera tout de même la présence d’Emilia Clarke venue présenter The Pod Generation et celle de Caleb Landry Jones, brillante tête d’affiche du DogMan de Luc Besson, qui ont laissé une traînée de paillettes sur les planches.
Le sprinteur australien Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny) a abandonné le Tour de France hier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acleb
- caelb
- calbe
- calebb
- calleb
- ccaleb
- claeb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Caleb - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).