canine
\ka.nin\
The verdict
“canine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,931
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dent pointue d’un mammifère (excepté les rongeurs), au nombre de deux par mâchoire, qui sert principalement à rompre ou à briser les corps durs ainsi qu'à déchirer la chair, et qui se situe entre l...
Corpus desk
Index FR-canine · canine · French
canine · rank #30,931 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,931
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cancéreuses
Nearest frequency peer: cancéreuses (-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 « canine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bûcheron
bûcheron
69,073 corpus weight
- caissons
caissons
69,072 corpus weight
- cancéreuses
cancéreuses
69,071 corpus weight
- canine
canine
69,070 corpus weight
- capricorne
capricorne
69,069 corpus weight
- caribou
caribou
69,068 corpus weight
What this shows « canine » 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 | canine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around canine (IPA \ka.nin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,931 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dent pointue d’un mammifère (excepté les rongeurs), au nombre de deux par mâchoire, qui sert principalement à rompre ou à briser les corps durs ainsi qu'à déchirer la chair, et qui se situe entre l...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for canine, with forms such as "acnine", "cainne", and "canien". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ciné", "canon", "canne", 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 canine, spelled C-A-N-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dent pointue d’un mammifère (excepté les rongeurs), au nombre de deux par mâchoire, qui sert principalement à rompre ou à briser les corps durs ainsi qu'à déchirer la chair, et qui se situe entre les incisives et les molaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Près de la porte, contre le mur, une fourche se dressait, une de ces fourches d’acier aux longues dents puissantes et fines qui se plantent dans les gerbes de blé comme des canines de chat dans un ventre de souris.
Avant de séduire la belle Ariane en lui exposant dans un étourdissant détail les théorèmes, lemmes et scolies qui fondent sa haine de la séduction, le beau Solal avait commencé par se rendre horrible à sa vue — horribile visu — en masquant toutes ses dents sauf ses deux canines d’un enduit noir, qui le changeait en vieillard édenté.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnine
- cainne
- canien
- caninne
- cannie
- cannine
- ccanine
- cnaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).