Canterbury
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
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Canterbury |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #44,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Canterbury” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Canterbury, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,353 among 257,141 “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
- 1Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “Canterbury”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-T-E-R-B-U-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.