calendes
\ka.lɑ̃d\
The verdict
“calendes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,960. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,960
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le premier jour de chaque mois dans le calendrier romain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calendes · calendes · French
calendes · rank #48,960 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,960
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calculant
Nearest frequency peer: calculant (-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 « calendes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bénignes
bénignes
51,044 corpus weight
- cakes
cakes
51,043 corpus weight
- calculant
calculant
51,042 corpus weight
- calendes
calendes
51,041 corpus weight
- callas
callas
51,040 corpus weight
- cantonais
cantonais
51,038 corpus weight
What this shows « calendes » 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 | calendes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calendes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around calendes (IPA \ka.lɑ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,960 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for calendes, with forms such as "aclendes", "caelndes", and "calednes". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "carences", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is calendes, spelled C-A-L-E-N-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Le premier jour de chaque mois dans le calendrier romain.
- 2Assemblée de curés convoqués par leur évêque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calendes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Néron naquit à Antium, neuf mois après la mort de Tibère, dix-huit jours avant les calendes de janvier, précisément au lever du soleil, en sort qu’il fut frappé de ses rayons presque avant la terre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclendes
- caelndes
- calednes
- calenddes
- calendess
- calendse
- caleneds
- calenndes
- callendes
- calnedes
- ccalendes
- claendes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calendes - 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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