Canaries
\ka.na.ʁi\
The verdict
“Canaries” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,240
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel volcanique et communauté autonome d’Espagne située dans l’océan Atlantique au nord-ouest du Maroc et du Sahara occidental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canaries · Canaries · French
Canaries · rank #25,240 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,240
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cambrioleur
Nearest frequency peer: cambrioleur (-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 « Canaries »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buvait
buvait
74,764 corpus weight
- bénigne
bénigne
74,763 corpus weight
- cambrioleur
cambrioleur
74,762 corpus weight
- Canaries
Canaries
74,761 corpus weight
- cantines
cantines
74,760 corpus weight
- cassis
cassis
74,759 corpus weight
What this shows « Canaries » 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 | Canaries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.na.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Canaries »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Canaries (IPA \ka.na.ʁi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,240 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Archipel volcanique et communauté autonome d’Espagne située dans l’océan Atlantique au nord-ouest du Maroc et du Sahara occidental.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Canaries, with forms such as "acnaries", "caanries", and "canaires". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "caries", "canaris", "Castries", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Canaries, spelled C-A-N-A-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Archipel volcanique et communauté autonome d’Espagne située dans l’océan Atlantique au nord-ouest du Maroc et du Sahara occidental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Canaries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Allons boire chez lui un flacon de vin des Canaries.
Si le nimbe poétique des légendes qui couronnait les Iles Fortunées est aujourd'hui à jamais évanoui, si les géologues ne veulent même plus nous permettre de voir en elles les restes d'une fabuleuse Atlantide engloutie par l'Océan, les Canaries, grâce à leurs beautés naturelles, à leur fertilité et à leur climat délicieux, n'en sont pas moins restées un a…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnaries
- caanries
- canaires
- canareis
- canariess
- canarise
- canarries
- cannaries
- canraies
- ccanaries
- cnaaries
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Canaries - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).