Cali
\ka.li\
The verdict
“Cali” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,723
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cali · Cali · French
Cali · rank #32,723 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,723
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Calabre
Nearest frequency peer: Calabre (-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 « Cali »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- caraïbe
caraïbe
67,275 corpus weight
What this shows « Cali » 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 | Cali |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cali »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Cali (IPA \ka.li\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,723 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cali, with forms such as "acli", "cail", and "calli". 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, "ci", "Cl", "cas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Cali, spelled C-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acli
- cail
- calli
- ccali
- clai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cali - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).