candidate
\kɑ̃.di.dat\
The verdict
“candidate” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,283. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,283
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui se propose pour un poste, une récompense, etc. (quel que soit le statut de cette proposition).
Corpus desk
Index FR-candidate · candidate · French
candidate · rank #7,283 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,283
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cachée
Nearest frequency peer: cachée (-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 « candidate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- berger
berger
92,721 corpus weight
- bi
bi
92,720 corpus weight
- cachée
cachée
92,719 corpus weight
- candidate
candidate
92,718 corpus weight
- centimètres
centimètres
92,717 corpus weight
- chevaliers
chevaliers
92,716 corpus weight
What this shows « candidate » 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 | candidate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.di.dat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « candidate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around candidate (IPA \kɑ̃.di.dat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,283 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celle qui se propose pour un poste, une récompense, etc. (quel que soit le statut de cette proposition).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for candidate, with forms such as "acndidate", "cadnidate", and "canddiate". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "candide", "candidats", "candidates", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 candidate, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui se propose pour un poste, une récompense, etc. (quel que soit le statut de cette proposition).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how candidate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il louait mademoiselle de Quinconas de sa collaboration intelligente et zélée, et, parcourant de son honnête regard les murs blanchis du petit oratoire, les pieuses images qui l’ornaient et l’auditoire rare et charmant, composé « premièrement, disait-il, d’une sainte gouvernante qui portera aux pieds de Dieu le mérite d’avoir soustrait une enfant aux embû…
Délicieux souvenirs de meetings aux salles combles, de discours émouvants de nos candidates novices (beaucoup s’exprimaient pour la première fois en public), du succès particulier auprès des médias étrangers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acndidate
- cadnidate
- canddiate
- canddidate
- candiadte
- candidaet
- candidatte
- candiddate
- candidtae
- caniddate
- canndidate
- ccandidate
- cnadidate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of candidate - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "candidate", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).