carillon

\ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\

/\ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“carillon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,594
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réunion de cloches accordées à différents tons.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carillon · carillon · French

carillon · rank #33,594 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,594
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cardiovascula…

Nearest frequency peer: cardiovasculaire (-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 « carillon »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « carillon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

carillon vs Carlton
63% similar
carillon vs Carlson
63% similar
carillon vs couillon
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for carillon
PropertyValue
Headwordcarillon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#33,594
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carillon »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.carillonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cardiovasculaire » (#33,593), « Carnegie » (#33,595), « cardiologue » (#33,592). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « carillon » est au #33,594. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around carillon (IPA \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Réunion de cloches accordées à différents tons.
  2. 2
    Air qu’on exécute sur ces cloches.
  3. 3
    Battement de cloches à coups précipités, avec une sorte de mesure et d’accord.
  4. 4
    Bruit fait par les jets d'un liquide tombant dans un récipient métallique.
  5. 5
    Crierie, grand bruit.
  6. 6
    Autre nom de la mariette, sorte de campanule.
  7. 7
    Signal sonore constitué de tonalités, servant à identifier une opération en cours ou un événement qui vient de se produire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how carillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au bruit des fanfares et des carillons, ils s’élancèrent au plein galop les uns contre les autres.
  2. On entendait, de tous côtés, les carillons des vendeurs de sorbet, de pignolats et de lait caillé, les timbales des astrologues en plein vent, les chansons des guzlares aveugles.

This word in other languages

carillon(English)carillón(Español)Glockenspiel(Deutsch)

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.

acrillon2cairllon2carillno2carillonn1cariloln2carilon1carlilon2carrillon1
Edit distance from "carillon"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carillon"?
"carillon" is spelled C-A-R-I-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\.
What does "carillon" mean?
As a noun, "carillon" means: Réunion de cloches accordées à différents tons.
What words are commonly confused with "carillon"?
"carillon" is commonly confused with "Carlton", "Carlson", "couillon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carillon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carillon" is \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carillon" come from?
"carillon" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Carnegie#33,595calvitie#33,589chausson#33,602chiffrée#33,604

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

climate10 variantscolombo10 variantsBenelux10 variantsBarbade10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list