canines
\ka.nin\
The verdict
“canines” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,745
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de canin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canines · canines · French
canines · rank #36,745 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,745
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH buveur
Nearest frequency peer: buveur (-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 « canines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bundestag
Bundestag
63,258 corpus weight
- buveur
buveur
63,257 corpus weight
- canines
canines
63,256 corpus weight
- cannibale
cannibale
63,255 corpus weight
- capturée
capturée
63,254 corpus weight
- Carhaix
Carhaix
63,253 corpus weight
What this shows « canines » 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 | canines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.nin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around canines (IPA \ka.nin\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,745 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de canin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for canines, with forms such as "acnines", "cainnes", and "caniens". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "canne", "cannes", "canons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is canines, spelled C-A-N-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de canin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers midi, de Marsay se détira les bras en se réveillant, et sentit les atteintes d’une de ces faims canines que tous les vieux soldats peuvent se souvenir d’avoir éprouvée au lendemain de la victoire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnines
- cainnes
- caniens
- caniness
- caninnes
- caninse
- cannies
- cannines
- ccanines
- cnaines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canines - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).