cannes
\kan\
The verdict
“cannes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,408
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de canne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cannes · cannes · French
cannes · rank #4,408 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,408
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calais
Nearest frequency peer: calais (-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 « cannes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouton
bouton
95,596 corpus weight
- bronze
bronze
95,595 corpus weight
- calais
calais
95,594 corpus weight
- cannes
cannes
95,593 corpus weight
- catastrophe
catastrophe
95,592 corpus weight
- chair
chair
95,591 corpus weight
What this shows « cannes » 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 | cannes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cannes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cannes (IPA \kan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,408 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de canne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cannes, with forms such as "acnnes", "canens", and "canes". 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, "CNES", "conne", "canoë", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cannes, spelled C-A-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de canne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cannes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le fond, et autour de l’aquarium, des présentoirs exhibaient les attirails, des plus simples aux plus compliqués : gaules en bambou, cannes en fibre de verre, grandes cannes télescopiques pour moulinet à tambour tournant, boîtes de mouches et de cuillères, d’hameçons et de plombs, devons, moulinets de tous calibres, montures pour poissons morts, dégor…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnnes
- canens
- canes
- canness
- cannse
- ccannes
- cnanes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cannes - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).