carlin
\kaʁ.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“carlin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,172. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,172
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de petit chien de compagnie molossoïde, type dogue provenant de Chine, à museau écrasé et noir, à poil ras, de couleur sable, noir ou marron très foncé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carlin · carlin · French
carlin · rank #41,172 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,172
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caricaturale
Nearest frequency peer: caricaturale (-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 « carlin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cailles
cailles
58,832 corpus weight
- calment
calment
58,831 corpus weight
- caricaturale
caricaturale
58,830 corpus weight
- carlin
carlin
58,829 corpus weight
- causse
causse
58,827 corpus weight
- celtics
celtics
58,826 corpus weight
What this shows « carlin » 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 | carlin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carlin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around carlin (IPA \kaʁ.lɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,172 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Race de petit chien de compagnie molossoïde, type dogue provenant de Chine, à museau écrasé et noir, à poil ras, de couleur sable, noir ou marron très foncé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for carlin, with forms such as "acrlin", "calrin", and "cariln". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clin", "crin", "colin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is carlin, spelled C-A-R-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Race de petit chien de compagnie molossoïde, type dogue provenant de Chine, à museau écrasé et noir, à poil ras, de couleur sable, noir ou marron très foncé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carlin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur la table, un chien empaillé que j'avais connu vivant, ancien compagnon de mes courses dans les bois, le dernier carlin peut-être, car il appartenait à cette race perdue.
La princesse a deux chiens carlins affreux, yeux saillants, dans un panier au salon, ne les quittant pas, même en voyage, les ayant toujours sous les bras : « Ça a l'air, dit Nieuwerkerke, des deux robinets d'un marchand de coco. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrlin
- calrin
- cariln
- carlinn
- carllin
- carlni
- carrlin
- ccarlin
- cralin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carlin - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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