caterpillar
\ka.tɛʁ.pi.laʁ\
The verdict
“caterpillar” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,971. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,971
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gros engin de chantier de la marque Caterpillar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caterpillar · caterpillar · French
caterpillar · rank #48,971 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,971
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Casamance
Nearest frequency peer: Casamance (-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 « caterpillar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Carlotta
Carlotta
51,033 corpus weight
- carrer
carrer
51,032 corpus weight
- Casamance
Casamance
51,031 corpus weight
- caterpillar
caterpillar
51,030 corpus weight
- catéchèse
catéchèse
51,029 corpus weight
- causses
causses
51,027 corpus weight
What this shows « caterpillar » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caterpillar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tɛʁ.pi.laʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #48,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caterpillar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around caterpillar (IPA \ka.tɛʁ.pi.laʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,971 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for caterpillar, with forms such as "acterpillar", "caetrpillar", and "cateprillar". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caterpillar, spelled C-A-T-E-R-P-I-L-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Gros engin de chantier de la marque Caterpillar.
- 2Gros engin de chantier qui est ou non de la marque Caterpillar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caterpillar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autre se plaint d’épisodes diarrhéiques, de flatulences et d’éructations aggravés considérablement par les vibrations d’un caterpillar qu’il conduit, phénomènes pathologiques qui le poussent à changer de profession.
Nous vous avons dit que l'Esprit Saint avait plus de force qu'un caterpillar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acterpillar
- caetrpillar
- cateprillar
- cateripllar
- caterpilalr
- caterpilar
- caterpillarr
- caterpillra
- caterplilar
- caterppillar
- caterrpillar
- catrepillar
- catterpillar
- ccaterpillar
- ctaerpillar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caterpillar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "caterpillar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).