canapé

\ka.na.pe\

/\ka.na.pe\/ noun

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The verdict

“canapé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,111. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,111
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de siège long à dossier, où plusieurs personnes peuvent être assises ensemble et qui peut servir aussi de lit de repos.

Corpus desk

Index FR-canape · canapé · French

canapé · rank #5,111 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,111
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Cameroun

Nearest frequency peer: Cameroun (-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 « canapé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « canapé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

canapé vs cape
50% similar
canapé vs cane
50% similar
canapé vs canne
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for canapé
PropertyValue
Headwordcanapé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.na.pe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,111
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canapé »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.canapése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Cameroun » (#5,110), « chiant » (#5,112), « bébés » (#5,109). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « canapé » est au #5,111. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around canapé (IPA \ka.na.pe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,111 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for canapé, with forms such as "acnapé", "caanpé", and "canape". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cape", "cane", "canne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is canapé, spelled C-A-N-A-P-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de siège long à dossier, où plusieurs personnes peuvent être assises ensemble et qui peut servir aussi de lit de repos.
  2. 2
    Tranche de pain sur laquelle on dispose certains mets.
  3. 3
    Demi-nœud.
  4. 4
    Lieu de rencontre de personnes homosexuelles pouvant appartenir à la haute société.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how canapé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je t’assure, Suzanne, ils feront très bien dans ta salle de séjour, ces fauteuils et ce canapé, bon il est un peu cra-cra, mais tu le recouvres d’un drap fleuri et te voilà vraiment chez toi !
  2. Dans le salon, le canapé était recouvert d’un patchwork représentant des animaux.

This word in other languages

sofa(English)canapé(Español)Sofa(Deutsch)sofá(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acnapé
  • caanpé
  • canape
  • canappé
  • canaép
  • cannapé
  • canpaé
  • ccanapé
  • cnaapé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canapé - 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.

acnapé2caanpé2canape1canappé1canaép2cannapé1canpaé2ccanapé1
Edit distance from "canapé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "canapé"?
"canapé" is spelled C-A-N-A-P-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.na.pe\.
What does "canapé" mean?
As a noun, "canapé" means: Sorte de siège long à dossier, où plusieurs personnes peuvent être assises ensemble et qui peut servir aussi de lit de repos.
What words are commonly confused with "canapé"?
"canapé" is commonly confused with "cape", "cane", "canne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "canapé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "canapé" is \ka.na.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "canapé" come from?
"canapé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "canapé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chiant#5,112avancé#5,105appart#5,103Amazon#5,101

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

devint9 variantsvendus9 variantssûreté9 variantsHitler9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list