caricatural
\ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\
The verdict
“caricatural” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,293
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient de la caricature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caricatural · caricatural · French
caricatural · rank #36,293 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,293
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capone
Nearest frequency peer: capone (-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 « caricatural »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cambon
Cambon
63,711 corpus weight
- cannibales
cannibales
63,710 corpus weight
- capone
capone
63,709 corpus weight
- caricatural
caricatural
63,708 corpus weight
- caritatif
caritatif
63,707 corpus weight
- Carrère
Carrère
63,706 corpus weight
What this shows « caricatural » 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 | caricatural |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #36,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caricatural »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around caricatural (IPA \ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,293 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui tient de la caricature.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for caricatural, with forms such as "acricatural", "caircatural", and "carciatural". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "caricature", "caricatures", "caricaturale", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is caricatural, spelled C-A-R-I-C-A-T-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui tient de la caricature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caricatural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes nombreux à nous être inspirés de cette approche des relations franco-allemandes et de l’Europe. Cela vaut également pour un autre champ de vos activités: l’explication de l’Allemagne et de la France aux voisins respectifs. Heureusement, la lutte inlassable que vous menez depuis plus d’un demi-siècle contre les images caricaturales ou carrément…
Comme l’emoji, le gif peut servir de réaction à un message autant que de signal d'un double sens. Il a une fonction illustrative, mimant de façon caricaturale et hyperbolique nos attitudes et notre état d'esprit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acricatural
- caircatural
- carciatural
- cariactural
- caricatrual
- caricattural
- caricatuarl
- caricaturall
- caricaturla
- caricaturral
- caricautral
- cariccatural
- carictaural
- carricatural
- ccaricatural
- craicatural
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caricatural - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).