canapés
\ka.na.pe\
The verdict
“canapés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,010. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,010
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de canapé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canapes · canapés · French
canapés · rank #34,010 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,010
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Calypso
Nearest frequency peer: Calypso (-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 « canapés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cabarets
cabarets
65,994 corpus weight
- calandre
calandre
65,993 corpus weight
- Calypso
Calypso
65,992 corpus weight
- canapés
canapés
65,991 corpus weight
- Carlyle
Carlyle
65,990 corpus weight
- Carolina
Carolina
65,989 corpus weight
What this shows « canapés » 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 | canapés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.na.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canapés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around canapés (IPA \ka.na.pe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,010 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de canapé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for canapés, with forms such as "acnapés", "caanpés", and "canapes". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "capes", "cannes", "carpes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is canapés, spelled C-A-N-A-P-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de canapé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canapés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Préservez murs et canapés des velléités fluo de vos garnements, en leur offrant un espace réservé à leur créativité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnapés
- caanpés
- canapes
- canappés
- canapsé
- canapéss
- canaéps
- cannapés
- canpaés
- ccanapés
- cnaapés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canapés - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "canapés", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).