canaliser
\ka.na.li.ze\
The verdict
“canaliser” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,994. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,994
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre un cours d’eau navigable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canaliser · canaliser · French
canaliser · rank #26,994 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,994
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cachot
Nearest frequency peer: cachot (-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 « canaliser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bunny
bunny
73,010 corpus weight
- bénie
bénie
73,009 corpus weight
- cachot
cachot
73,008 corpus weight
- canaliser
canaliser
73,007 corpus weight
- carrure
carrure
73,006 corpus weight
- casimir
casimir
73,005 corpus weight
What this shows « canaliser » 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 | canaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.na.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canaliser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around canaliser (IPA \ka.na.li.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,994 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for canaliser, with forms such as "acnaliser", "caanliser", and "canailser". 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, "cavalier", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 canaliser, spelled C-A-N-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre un cours d’eau navigable.
- 2Sillonner un pays de canaux.
- 3Transporter à distance l’eau, le gaz, l’électricité.
- 4Concentrer, empêcher la dispersion, restreindre en suivant une direction précise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Petite-Seine s'étend de Marcilly à Montereau, sur une longueur de 92 kilomètres. Elle est canalisée, sauf entre Bray-sur-Seine et Montereau où la navigation se fait encore par éclusées.
Quant aux Hollandais, nous avons étudié l'an dernier leurs projets. Ils se sont décidés à canaliser la Meuse sur une longueur de 110 kilomètres. Ces travaux, dont le coût est considérable, sont en cours.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnaliser
- caanliser
- canailser
- canaliesr
- canaliserr
- canalisre
- canalisser
- canalliser
- canalsier
- canlaiser
- cannaliser
- ccanaliser
- cnaaliser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canaliser - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).