cantonais
\kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“cantonais” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,963. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,963
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue chinoise, parlée principalement à Hong Kong, à Macao et dans le Sud-Est de la Chine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantonais · cantonais · French
cantonais · rank #48,963 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,963
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH callas
Nearest frequency peer: callas (-2 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 « cantonais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- calculant
calculant
51,042 corpus weight
- calendes
calendes
51,041 corpus weight
- callas
callas
51,040 corpus weight
- cantonais
cantonais
51,038 corpus weight
- carina
carina
51,036 corpus weight
- Carlier
Carlier
51,035 corpus weight
What this shows « cantonais » 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 | cantonais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cantonais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cantonais (IPA \kɑ̃.tɔ.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,963 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue chinoise, parlée principalement à Hong Kong, à Macao et dans le Sud-Est de la Chine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cantonais, with forms such as "acntonais", "canntonais", and "canotnais". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cantons", "cantonal", "cantonale", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cantonais, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Langue chinoise, parlée principalement à Hong Kong, à Macao et dans le Sud-Est de la Chine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acntonais
- canntonais
- canotnais
- cantnoais
- cantoanis
- cantonaiss
- cantonasi
- cantonias
- cantonnais
- canttonais
- catnonais
- ccantonais
- cnatonais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cantonais - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cantonais", 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).