carillon
\ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“carillon” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #33,594 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #33,594
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Réunion de cloches accordées à différents tons.
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 | carillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carillon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carillon is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,594 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for carillon, with forms such as "acrillon", "cairllon", and "carillno". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Carlton", "Carlson", "couillon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is carillon, spelled C-A-R-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Réunion de cloches accordées à différents tons.
- 2Air qu’on exécute sur ces cloches.
- 3Battement de cloches à coups précipités, avec une sorte de mesure et d’accord.
- 4Bruit fait par les jets d'un liquide tombant dans un récipient métallique.
- 5Crierie, grand bruit.
- 6Autre nom de la mariette, sorte de campanule.
- 7Signal sonore constitué de tonalités, servant à identifier une opération en cours ou un événement qui vient de se produire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrillon,cairllon,carillno,carillonn,cariloln,carilon,carlilon,carrillon,ccarillon,craillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carillon - 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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Using “carillon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-I-L-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Carlton” - see the side-by-side comparison. carillon vs Carlton
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.