cannibale

\ka.ni.bal\

/\ka.ni.bal\/ noun

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The verdict

“cannibale” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,746. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,746
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être vivant qui mange de la chair d’individus de la même espèce que lui.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cannibale · cannibale · French

cannibale · rank #36,746 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #36,746
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH canines

Nearest frequency peer: canines (-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 « cannibale »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cannibale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cannibale vs cannibales
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cannibale
PropertyValue
Headwordcannibale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ni.bal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#36,746
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cannibale »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cannibalese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « canines » (#36,745), « capturée » (#36,747), « buveur » (#36,744). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cannibale » est au #36,746. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around cannibale (IPA \ka.ni.bal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,746 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cannibale, with forms such as "acnnibale", "canibale", and "caninbale". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cannibales", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cannibale, spelled C-A-N-N-I-B-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être vivant qui mange de la chair d’individus de la même espèce que lui.
  2. 2
    Toute personne cruelle et féroce.
  3. 3
    Toast nappé de filet américain (nom belge du steak tartare).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cannibale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces deux infortunés étaient à peine morts qu’on les dépeça et qu’on les fit rôtir dans des fours préparés pour nous.[…]. Nous fûmes attaqués de tous côtés et avec une grande furie par ces cannibales, qui néanmoins montraient une extrême frayeur de nos fusils, […].
  2. J'entendais le bruit des sauvages qui piétinaient sur la plate-forme en poussant des cris assourdissants. La nuit se passa ainsi, et sans que l'équipage sortît de son inertie habituelle. Il ne s'inquiétait pas plus de la présence de ces cannibales que les soldats d'un fort blindé ne se préoccupent des fourmis qui courent sur son blindage.

Synonyms

allélophage

This word in other languages

cannibal(English)caníbal(Español)Menschenfresser(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acnnibale
  • canibale
  • caninbale
  • cannbiale
  • canniable
  • cannibael
  • canniballe
  • cannibbale
  • canniblae
  • ccannibale
  • cnanibale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cannibale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acnnibale2canibale1caninbale2cannbiale2canniable2cannibael2canniballe1cannibbale1
Edit distance from "cannibale"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cannibale"?
"cannibale" is spelled C-A-N-N-I-B-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ni.bal\.
What does "cannibale" mean?
As a noun, "cannibale" means: Être vivant qui mange de la chair d’individus de la même espèce que lui.
What words are commonly confused with "cannibale"?
"cannibale" is commonly confused with "cannibales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cannibale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cannibale" is \ka.ni.bal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cannibale" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cannibale", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bundestag#36,743centurion#36,752chargeant#36,756collégien#36,765

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

charter11 variantsciblent11 variantsbaryton11 variantsconvenue11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list