caniche
\ka.niʃ\
The verdict
“caniche” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,918. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,918
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien de compagnie, originaire d’Allemagne et de France, probablement dérivé du barbet, grand, moyen ou nain, à poil bouclé ou cordé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caniche · caniche · French
caniche · rank #34,918 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,918
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH campings
Nearest frequency peer: campings (-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 « caniche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caduque
caduque
65,087 corpus weight
- campements
campements
65,085 corpus weight
- campings
campings
65,084 corpus weight
- caniche
caniche
65,083 corpus weight
- cantonné
cantonné
65,082 corpus weight
- cargos
cargos
65,081 corpus weight
What this shows « caniche » 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 | caniche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.niʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caniche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around caniche (IPA \ka.niʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,918 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for caniche, with forms such as "acniche", "cainche", and "cancihe". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "chiche", "canine", "capuche", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caniche, spelled C-A-N-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Race de chien de compagnie, originaire d’Allemagne et de France, probablement dérivé du barbet, grand, moyen ou nain, à poil bouclé ou cordé.
- 2Personne particulièrement servile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caniche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les caniches arrivaient pendant que mon clown racontait ses histoires, ils le faisaient tourner en bourrique et lui apprenaient, à lui, à sauter pour attraper un os au bout d’un bâton.
Il n’est pas très-bien coiffé, reprit-il en regardant la chevelure ébouriffée et luxuriante du provincial, mais je vais le mener chez Marius qui va lui ôter cette apparence de caniche si nuisible à sa considération et à la nôtre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acniche
- cainche
- cancihe
- canicche
- caniceh
- canichhe
- canihce
- canniche
- ccaniche
- cnaiche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caniche - 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 "caniche", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).