Cardiff
\kaʁ.dif\
The verdict
“Cardiff” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,290
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comté, autorité unitaire, ville et capitale du Pays de Galles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardiff · Cardiff · French
Cardiff · rank #26,290 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,290
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capotes
Nearest frequency peer: capotes (-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 « Cardiff »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capes
capes
73,714 corpus weight
- capillaires
capillaires
73,713 corpus weight
- capotes
capotes
73,712 corpus weight
- Cardiff
Cardiff
73,711 corpus weight
- catho
catho
73,710 corpus weight
- chanceuse
chanceuse
73,709 corpus weight
What this shows « Cardiff » 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 | Cardiff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.dif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cardiff »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Cardiff (IPA \kaʁ.dif\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,290 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Comté, autorité unitaire, ville et capitale du Pays de Galles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cardiff, with forms such as "acrdiff", "cadriff", and "carddiff". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cardin", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Cardiff, spelled C-A-R-D-I-F-F.
Definition
- 1Comté, autorité unitaire, ville et capitale du Pays de Galles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cardiff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ce que soutient Mark Seed, un responsable d’une banque alimentaire de Cardiff, la capitale du pays de Galles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrdiff
- cadriff
- carddiff
- cardfif
- cardif
- caridff
- carrdiff
- ccardiff
- cradiff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cardiff - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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