Cambridge
\kɑ̃.bʁidʒ\
The verdict
“Cambridge” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,727. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,727
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Cambridgeshire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cambridge · Cambridge · French
Cambridge · rank #11,727 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,727
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH buisson
Nearest frequency peer: buisson (-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 « Cambridge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bombardier
bombardier
88,278 corpus weight
- boulet
boulet
88,277 corpus weight
- buisson
buisson
88,275 corpus weight
- Cambridge
Cambridge
88,274 corpus weight
- cartier
cartier
88,272 corpus weight
- castro
castro
88,271 corpus weight
What this shows « Cambridge » 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 | Cambridge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.bʁidʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cambridge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Cambridge (IPA \kɑ̃.bʁidʒ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,727 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cambridge, with forms such as "acmbridge", "cabmridge", and "cambbridge". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Cambodge", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cambridge, spelled C-A-M-B-R-I-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Cambridgeshire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
- 2Université située dans la ville du même nom.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acmbridge
- cabmridge
- cambbridge
- cambirdge
- cambrdige
- cambriddge
- cambrideg
- cambridgge
- cambrigde
- cambrridge
- cammbridge
- camrbidge
- ccambridge
- cmabridge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cambridge - 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 "Cambridge", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).