canari
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,825
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
canari is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de petit oiseau passereau d'Eurasie, serin voisin des pinsons, originaire des îles Canaries possédant un plumage marbré de vert et de brun. Pronounced \ka.na.ʁi\. Often confused with Capri and canaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canari |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.na.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canari is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.na.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,825 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for canari, with forms such as "acnari", "caanri", and "canair". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Capri", "canaux", "Cavani", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is canari, spelled C-A-N-A-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau d'Eurasie, serin voisin des pinsons, originaire des îles Canaries possédant un plumage marbré de vert et de brun.
- 2Oiseau chanteur de petite taille élevé en cage, forme domestiquée du précédent. Sa couleur jaune caractéristique est aujourd’hui modifiée par des éleveurs spécialisés.
- 3Champignon à lames assez serrées et inégales, au chapeau à marge ondulée jaune brunâtre, et au pied sans anneau, trapu, jaune.
- 4Policier portant un dossard jaune.
- 5Cocktail composé de pastis et de sirop de citron.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnari,caanri,canair,canarri,cannari,canrai,ccanari,cnaari
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "canari"
Frequency rank: #43,825 in French
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