candeur
\kɑ̃.dœʁ\
The verdict
“candeur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,847
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au sens étymologique du terme, blancheur, pureté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candeur · candeur · French
candeur · rank #35,847 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,847
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canaris
Nearest frequency peer: canaris (-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 « candeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- canaris
canaris
64,155 corpus weight
- candeur
candeur
64,154 corpus weight
- cannibalisme
cannibalisme
64,153 corpus weight
- cannon
cannon
64,152 corpus weight
- captivant
captivant
64,151 corpus weight
- carafe
carafe
64,150 corpus weight
What this shows « candeur » 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 | candeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « candeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around candeur (IPA \kɑ̃.dœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,847 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for candeur, with forms such as "acndeur", "cadneur", and "canddeur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "capteur", "conteur", "censeur", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is candeur, spelled C-A-N-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Au sens étymologique du terme, blancheur, pureté.
- 2Pureté d'âme ; confiance ; ingénuité ; franchise.
- 3Confiance excessive ; naïveté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how candeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce monde, sa plus grande joie, qu’il achète au prix de son sommeil, est d’aller dans les cabarets boire avec les ouvriers le vin blanc du matin. Innocence d’ivrogne : ce vin clair, dans le jour pâle, parmi les blouses blanches des maçons, ce sont là des candeurs qui charment son âme restée naïve dans le vice.
M. de La Baudraye eut bientôt remarqué l’ascendant que sa qualité de mari lui donnait sur les galants de sa femme, et il se servit d’eux avec la plus entière candeur, il obtint des dégrèvements de contribution, et gagna deux procillons.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acndeur
- cadneur
- canddeur
- canderu
- candeurr
- canduer
- canedur
- canndeur
- ccandeur
- cnadeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of candeur - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).