cantiques
\kɑ̃.tik\
The verdict
“cantiques” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,331
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cantique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantiques · cantiques · French
cantiques · rank #32,331 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,331
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cantique
Nearest frequency peer: cantique (-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 « cantiques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- cartilage
cartilage
67,668 corpus weight
What this shows « cantiques » 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 | cantiques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cantiques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cantiques (IPA \kɑ̃.tik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,331 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cantique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cantiques, with forms such as "acntiques", "canitques", and "canntiques". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "cyniques", "coniques", "continues", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cantiques, spelled C-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cantiques 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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acntiques
- canitques
- canntiques
- cantiqeus
- cantiqques
- cantiquess
- cantiquse
- cantiuqes
- cantqiues
- canttiques
- catniques
- ccantiques
- cnatiques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cantiques - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cantiques", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).