Carhaix
\ka.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“Carhaix” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,748
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante habituelle et simplifiée de Carhaix-Plouguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carhaix · Carhaix · French
Carhaix · rank #36,748 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,748
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capturée
Nearest frequency peer: capturée (-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 « Carhaix »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- canines
canines
63,256 corpus weight
- cannibale
cannibale
63,255 corpus weight
- capturée
capturée
63,254 corpus weight
- Carhaix
Carhaix
63,253 corpus weight
- casher
casher
63,252 corpus weight
- cassos
cassos
63,251 corpus weight
What this shows « Carhaix » 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 | Carhaix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Carhaix »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Carhaix (IPA \ka.ʁɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,748 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante habituelle et simplifiée de Carhaix-Plouguer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Carhaix, with forms such as "acrhaix", "cahraix", and "carahix". 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, "cachait", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Carhaix, spelled C-A-R-H-A-I-X.
Definition
- 1Variante habituelle et simplifiée de Carhaix-Plouguer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Carhaix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grands festivals annuels en Bretagne constituent les vitrines de promotion de toute cette culture populaire : le FIL de Lorient, la Cornouaille de Quimper, la Lune de Landerneau, les Étonnants voyageurs de Saint-Malo, les (nouvelles) Vieilles charrues de Carhaix et son salon du livre breton, également en plein développement.
Au général, le Danois Joshua Gudnitz (Coloquick) est toujours leader avant la 3ᵉ étape qui mènera, ce dimanche, les coureurs de Priziac à Carhaix.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrhaix
- cahraix
- carahix
- carhaixx
- carhaxi
- carhhaix
- carhiax
- carrhaix
- ccarhaix
- crahaix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Carhaix - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).