Canterbury

name

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The verdict

“Canterbury” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,353. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,353
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-canterbury · Canterbury · French

Canterbury · rank #44,353 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,353
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH canoniques

Nearest frequency peer: canoniques (-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 « Canterbury »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Canterbury » 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
Key facts for Canterbury
PropertyValue
HeadwordCanterbury
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#44,353
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Canterbury »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Canterburyse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « canoniques » (#44,352), « Cambodgien » (#44,351), « carmélites » (#44,355). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Canterbury » est au #44,353. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around Canterbury, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,353 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Canterbury, with forms such as "acnterbury", "canetrbury", and "cannterbury". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Canterbury, spelled C-A-N-T-E-R-B-U-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La pièce en argent a été frappée à Canterbury vers 1493-1499, selon l’archéologue William Gilbert, qui a découvert le lieu historique en 1995 et qui dirige les fouilles à cet endroit depuis lors.

This word in other languages

Canterbury(English)Canterbury(Español)Canterbury(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acnterbury
  • canetrbury
  • cannterbury
  • cantebrury
  • canterbbury
  • canterbruy
  • canterburry
  • canterburyy
  • canterbuyr
  • canterrbury
  • canterubry
  • cantrebury
  • cantterbury
  • catnerbury
  • ccanterbury
  • cnaterbury

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Canterbury - 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.

acnterbury2canetrbury2cannterbury1cantebrury2canterbbury1canterbruy2canterburry1canterburyy1
Edit distance from "Canterbury"

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 "Canterbury"?
"Canterbury" is spelled C-A-N-T-E-R-B-U-R-Y.
What does "Canterbury" mean?
As a proper noun, "Canterbury" means: Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.
What are common misspellings of "Canterbury"?
Common misspellings include "acnterbury", "canetrbury", "cannterbury", "cantebrury", "canterbbury". The correct spelling is "Canterbury".
What language does "Canterbury" come from?
"Canterbury" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

canoniques#44,352Cambodgien#44,351carmélites#44,355chaotiques#44,363

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

bolcheviks16 variantsabominables16 variantsdémontrait16 variantstransmettra16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list