carburant
\kaʁ.by.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“carburant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,955
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui carbure, qui a les caractéristiques d’un carburant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carburant · carburant · French
carburant · rank #5,955 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,955
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cannabis
Nearest frequency peer: cannabis (-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 « carburant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cahier
cahier
94,049 corpus weight
- calculer
calculer
94,048 corpus weight
- cannabis
cannabis
94,047 corpus weight
- carburant
carburant
94,046 corpus weight
- certificat
certificat
94,045 corpus weight
- circulaire
circulaire
94,043 corpus weight
What this shows « carburant » 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 | carburant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaʁ.by.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carburant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around carburant (IPA \kaʁ.by.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,955 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui carbure, qui a les caractéristiques d’un carburant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for carburant, with forms such as "acrburant", "cabrurant", and "carbburant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "carburants", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is carburant, spelled C-A-R-B-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui carbure, qui a les caractéristiques d’un carburant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carburant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La décision d`utiliser à fond certaines substances carburantes a, au cours des deux derniers siècles, lancé l'homme sur une voie irréversible en mettant à son service des sources d'énergie dont son avidité et sa violence ont bientôt abusé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrburant
- cabrurant
- carbburant
- carbruant
- carbuarnt
- carburannt
- carburantt
- carburatn
- carburnat
- carburrant
- carrburant
- carubrant
- ccarburant
- craburant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carburant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).