Carlson
The verdict
“Carlson” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,852
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carlson · Carlson · French
Carlson · rank #35,852 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,852
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carafe
Nearest frequency peer: carafe (-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 « Carlson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cannon
cannon
64,152 corpus weight
- captivant
captivant
64,151 corpus weight
- carafe
carafe
64,150 corpus weight
- Carlson
Carlson
64,149 corpus weight
- carvalho
carvalho
64,148 corpus weight
- centraliser
centraliser
64,147 corpus weight
What this shows « Carlson » 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 | Carlson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Carlson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Carlson, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,852 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Carlson, with forms such as "acrlson", "calrson", and "carllson". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "caron", "carton", "Carson", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Carlson, spelled C-A-R-L-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Carlson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Surtout, elle rencontre la crème des chorégraphes du XXᵉ siècle en la personne de Maurice Béjart, Rudolf Noureev ou Carolyn Carlson qui devient une amie, « ma grande sœur ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrlson
- calrson
- carllson
- carlosn
- carlsno
- carlsonn
- carlsson
- carrlson
- carslon
- ccarlson
- cralson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Carlson - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Carlson", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).