Cayenne
\ka.jɛn\
The verdict
“Cayenne” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,826. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,826
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve situé dans le département de la Guyane française, en Amérique du Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cayenne · Cayenne · French
Cayenne · rank #16,826 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,826
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caviar
Nearest frequency peer: caviar (-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 « Cayenne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cassent
cassent
83,178 corpus weight
- Caucase
Caucase
83,177 corpus weight
- caviar
caviar
83,176 corpus weight
- Cayenne
Cayenne
83,175 corpus weight
- centime
centime
83,174 corpus weight
- cessation
cessation
83,173 corpus weight
What this shows « Cayenne » 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 | Cayenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.jɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cayenne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Cayenne (IPA \ka.jɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,826 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cayenne, with forms such as "acyenne", "caeynne", and "cayene". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "chienne", "cheyenne", "canne", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cayenne, spelled C-A-Y-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fleuve situé dans le département de la Guyane française, en Amérique du Sud.
- 2Chef-lieu du département de la Guyane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cayenne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CAIENNE ou CAYENNE, & non pas CAJENE, & moins encore CAJANE, ni même CAYANE. Caianus. Fleuve de l’Amérique qui prend sa source dans les montagnes de la Guaïane, traverse toute la Caribane du midi au septentrion, & se décharge dans la mer du Nord.
Vers son estuaire, la rivière de Cayenne ou rivière des Cascades reçoit, en rive gauche, les eaux de son principal affluent la rivière Montsinéry lors de son arrivée à Cayenne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acyenne
- caeynne
- cayene
- cayenen
- caynene
- cayyenne
- ccayenne
- cyaenne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cayenne - 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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).