Carnac
\kaʁ.nak\
The verdict
“Carnac” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,395
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carnac · Carnac · French
Carnac · rank #48,395 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,395
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carmichael
Nearest frequency peer: Carmichael (-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 « Carnac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- canto
canto
51,609 corpus weight
- canyons
canyons
51,608 corpus weight
- Carmichael
Carmichael
51,607 corpus weight
- Carnac
Carnac
51,606 corpus weight
- carolingien…
carolingienne
51,605 corpus weight
- Carrington
Carrington
51,604 corpus weight
What this shows « Carnac » 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 | Carnac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.nak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Carnac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Carnac (IPA \kaʁ.nak\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,395 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Carnac, with forms such as "acrnac", "canrac", and "caranc". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "crac", "carne", "carnet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 Carnac, spelled C-A-R-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Carnac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers Carnac, tous les champs se hérissent de barrières de pierres ; à cet effet, les monuments celtiques ont été dévastés ; on estime qu’il a péri deux mille menhirs, il en reste onze ou douze cents.
L’extraordinaire concentration de dolmens dans la région de Carnac témoigne bien que ce fut là un centre exceptionnel du mégalithisme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrnac
- canrac
- caranc
- carnacc
- carnca
- carnnac
- carrnac
- ccarnac
- cranac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Carnac - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).