canyon
\ka.njɔn\
The verdict
“canyon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,824
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gorge très étroite et profondément encaissée, aux versants abrupts, creusée par un cours d’eau dans un plateau ou une montagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canyon · canyon · French
canyon · rank #15,824 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,824
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calculée
Nearest frequency peer: calculée (-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 « canyon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boursier
boursier
84,179 corpus weight
- calculée
calculée
84,178 corpus weight
- canyon
canyon
84,177 corpus weight
- capot
capot
84,176 corpus weight
- carreau
carreau
84,175 corpus weight
- causant
causant
84,174 corpus weight
What this shows « canyon » 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 | canyon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.njɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canyon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around canyon (IPA \ka.njɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,824 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gorge très étroite et profondément encaissée, aux versants abrupts, creusée par un cours d’eau dans un plateau ou une montagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for canyon, with forms such as "acnyon", "cannyon", and "canoyn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caron", "caton", "carton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is canyon, spelled C-A-N-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Gorge très étroite et profondément encaissée, aux versants abrupts, creusée par un cours d’eau dans un plateau ou une montagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canyon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’était retrouvé dans un canyon au milieu de nulle part.
La diligence enfila une série de canyons vertigineux, où le bruit des roues concassant la pierraille et le martèlement régulier des sabots s’entrechoquaient entre les remparts. Le guide était sur le qui-vive et chacun retenait son souffle, de peur d’un guet-apens. Ce fut une angoisse de chaque instant, une nouvelle version du calme plat avant la tempête,…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnyon
- cannyon
- canoyn
- canyno
- canyonn
- canyyon
- caynon
- ccanyon
- cnayon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canyon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).