cantique
\kɑ̃.tik\
The verdict
“cantique” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,330. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,330
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chant consacré à la gloire de Dieu, en action de grâces ou en l’honneur des saints.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantique · cantique · French
cantique · rank #32,330 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,330
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cambrioler
Nearest frequency peer: cambrioler (-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 « cantique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cales
cales
67,674 corpus weight
- calque
calque
67,673 corpus weight
- cambrioler
cambrioler
67,672 corpus weight
- cantique
cantique
67,671 corpus weight
- cantiques
cantiques
67,670 corpus weight
- cartable
cartable
67,669 corpus weight
What this shows « cantique » 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 | cantique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cantique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cantique (IPA \kɑ̃.tik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,330 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chant consacré à la gloire de Dieu, en action de grâces ou en l’honneur des saints.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cantique, with forms such as "acntique", "canitque", and "canntique". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cynique", "conique", "continue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cantique, spelled C-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Chant consacré à la gloire de Dieu, en action de grâces ou en l’honneur des saints.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cantique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du reste, on n’y regardait pas de si près, et l’on pouvait tout aussi bien, au XVIᵉ siècle, accommoder ces cantiques naïfs sur des airs de danse, que, cent ans après, ajuster les noëls de de la Monnoye sur les airs des ballets de Lulli, le Rigodon de Galathée, sa Chaconne du grand ballet du Roy, l’ouverture de Bellérophon, etc.
Des chanteurs de complaintes allaient et venaient comme dans une foire; mais au lieu du fameux cantique de Geneviève de Brabant, ils chantaient sur le même air une chanson non moins bien versifiée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acntique
- canitque
- canntique
- cantiqeu
- cantiqque
- cantiuqe
- cantqiue
- canttique
- catnique
- ccantique
- cnatique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cantique - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).