carrefours
\kaʁ.fuʁ\
The verdict
“carrefours” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,091
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carrefour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrefours · carrefours · French
carrefours · rank #28,091 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,091
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH captifs
Nearest frequency peer: captifs (-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 « carrefours »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cantonale
cantonale
71,913 corpus weight
- capricieux
capricieux
71,912 corpus weight
- captifs
captifs
71,911 corpus weight
- carrefours
carrefours
71,910 corpus weight
- carrosse
carrosse
71,909 corpus weight
- cartels
cartels
71,908 corpus weight
What this shows « carrefours » 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 | carrefours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.fuʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carrefours »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around carrefours (IPA \kaʁ.fuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,091 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de carrefour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for carrefours, with forms such as "acrrefours", "carefours", and "carerfours". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "carrefour", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is carrefours, spelled C-A-R-R-E-F-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carrefour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carrefours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était bien question de l’Identité Judiciaire, de tous ces gens qui arrivent après la bataille… alors que lui Sauveur avait délabyrinthé le sac de nœuds et qu’il était impatient de clamer aux carrefours la nouvelle inouïe… (la voix nasillarde d’un sous-fifre lui faisait un compte rendu morne et ennuyeux…) de déposer aux pieds de Brigitte Mahoudier…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrrefours
- carefours
- carerfours
- carreffours
- carreforus
- carrefourrs
- carrefourss
- carrefousr
- carrefuors
- carreofurs
- carrfeours
- ccarrefours
- crarefours
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carrefours - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).