calepin
\kal.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“calepin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,201
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carnet de poche où l’on note des indications, des renseignements, des impressions, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calepin · calepin · French
calepin · rank #47,201 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,201
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calculatrices
Nearest frequency peer: calculatrices (-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 « calepin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buses
buses
52,803 corpus weight
- Caennais
Caennais
52,802 corpus weight
- calculatric…
calculatrices
52,801 corpus weight
- calepin
calepin
52,800 corpus weight
- calma
calma
52,799 corpus weight
- Calvet
Calvet
52,798 corpus weight
What this shows « calepin » 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 | calepin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calepin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around calepin (IPA \kal.pɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,201 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for calepin, with forms such as "aclepin", "caelpin", and "caleipn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "câlin", "Calvin", "caleçon", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is calepin, spelled C-A-L-E-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Carnet de poche où l’on note des indications, des renseignements, des impressions, etc.
- 2Dessin représentant le travail à exécuter, sur lequel les dimensions de chaque pierre sont indiquées.
- 3Cartable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calepin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le uhlan mettait pied à terre, ouvrait tranquillement une carte ou un calepin, prenait des notes.
Des employés en casquette écrivaient sur des calepins, à la lueur du gaz.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclepin
- caelpin
- caleipn
- calepinn
- calepni
- caleppin
- callepin
- calpein
- ccalepin
- claepin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calepin - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).