chaudron
\ʃo.dʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“chaudron” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,202
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie la couleur rouge-brun des vieux cuivres, en parlant surtout de la teinture des tissus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaudron · chaudron · French
chaudron · rank #22,202 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,202
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaudières
Nearest frequency peer: chaudières (-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 « chaudron »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- centimètre
centimètre
77,802 corpus weight
- chaleureuse…
chaleureusement
77,801 corpus weight
- chaudières
chaudières
77,800 corpus weight
- chaudron
chaudron
77,799 corpus weight
- Chaumont
Chaumont
77,798 corpus weight
- chenilles
chenilles
77,796 corpus weight
What this shows « chaudron » 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 | chaudron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃo.dʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chaudron »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chaudron (IPA \ʃo.dʁɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,202 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualifie la couleur rouge-brun des vieux cuivres, en parlant surtout de la teinture des tissus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chaudron, with forms such as "cahudron", "cchaudron", and "chaduron". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "chausson", "Charon", "charron", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chaudron, spelled C-H-A-U-D-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qualifie la couleur rouge-brun des vieux cuivres, en parlant surtout de la teinture des tissus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chaudron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La jeune fille était bien proportionnée, de taille moyenne, un peu mince et menue, mais harmonieuse de mouvements, de gestes, de courbes, et si bien prise dans sa veste chaudron ouverte sur une chemisette de soie à col aiglon, […].
Là, le soir, devant sa table couverte d'un tapis péruvien, entouré de papiers vélin vert d'eau ou bleu roi, en robe de chambre chaudron, son carnet de notes et trois cahiers bien rangés près de lui […], Larbaud poursuivait le travail commencé — son travail ou ses lectures — très avant dans la nuit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahudron
- cchaudron
- chaduron
- chauddron
- chaudorn
- chaudrno
- chaudronn
- chaudrron
- chaurdon
- chhaudron
- chuadron
- hcaudron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chaudron - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).