Champlain
\ʃɑ̃.plɛ̃\
The verdict
“Champlain” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,091
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC des Chenaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-champlain · Champlain · French
Champlain · rank #17,091 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,091
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaleurs
Nearest frequency peer: chaleurs (-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 « Champlain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- casseroles
casseroles
82,913 corpus weight
- centriste
centriste
82,912 corpus weight
- chaleurs
chaleurs
82,911 corpus weight
- Champlain
Champlain
82,910 corpus weight
- changerait
changerait
82,909 corpus weight
- Chantilly
Chantilly
82,908 corpus weight
What this shows « Champlain » 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 | Champlain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.plɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Champlain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Champlain (IPA \ʃɑ̃.plɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,091 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Champlain, with forms such as "cahmplain", "cchamplain", and "chamlpain". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Chaplin", "châtelain", "chapelain", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Champlain, spelled C-H-A-M-P-L-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC des Chenaux.
- 2Canton du Canada situé dans la province de l’Ontario.
- 3Village de l'État de New York.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Champlain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Mercier voient grand. Installée à Champlain depuis 1960, leur entreprise de récupération spécialisée en produits industriels et commerciaux est une véritable caverne d'Ali Baba unique en son genre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahmplain
- cchamplain
- chamlpain
- chammplain
- champalin
- champlainn
- champlani
- champlian
- champllain
- champplain
- chapmlain
- chhamplain
- chmaplain
- hcamplain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Champlain - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).