calligraphie
\ka.li.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“calligraphie” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,680
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de bien former les caractères d’écriture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calligraphie · calligraphie · French
calligraphie · rank #29,680 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,680
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH californienne
Nearest frequency peer: californienne (-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 « calligraphie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bénir
bénir
70,324 corpus weight
- californien…
californienne
70,322 corpus weight
- calligraphie
calligraphie
70,321 corpus weight
- cambrioleurs
cambrioleurs
70,320 corpus weight
- campe
campe
70,319 corpus weight
- campo
campo
70,318 corpus weight
What this shows « calligraphie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calligraphie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #29,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calligraphie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around calligraphie (IPA \ka.li.ɡʁa.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,680 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for calligraphie, with forms such as "aclligraphie", "caligraphie", and "calilgraphie". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is calligraphie, spelled C-A-L-L-I-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art de bien former les caractères d’écriture.
- 2Écriture formée de ces beaux caractères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calligraphie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bushman prit la lettre que lui présentait son compagnon. Il la tourna et la retourna en homme peu familiarisé avec les mystères de la calligraphie.
En Sibérie, le lieutenant-colonel apprit, pour tuer le temps, le calcul et la calligraphie au Breton, ….
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclligraphie
- caligraphie
- calilgraphie
- callgiraphie
- calligarphie
- calliggraphie
- calligrahpie
- calligraphei
- calligraphhie
- calligrapihe
- calligrapphie
- calligrpahie
- calligrraphie
- callirgaphie
- ccalligraphie
- claligraphie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calligraphie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "calligraphie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).