child
\ˈtʃaɪld\
The verdict
“child” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,798. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,798
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfant (fils ou fille). Note d’usage : Utilisé généralement dans une construction possessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-child · child · French
child · rank #23,798 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,798
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centième
Nearest frequency peer: centième (-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 « child »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CDU
CDU
76,206 corpus weight
- celtes
celtes
76,205 corpus weight
- centième
centième
76,204 corpus weight
- child
child
76,203 corpus weight
- Cléopâtre
Cléopâtre
76,201 corpus weight
- CNC
CNC
76,200 corpus weight
What this shows « child » 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 | child |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtʃaɪld\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « child »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around child (IPA \ˈtʃaɪld\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,798 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for child, with forms such as "cchild", "chhild", and "chidl". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cid", "cil", "cils", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is child, spelled C-H-I-L-D.
Definition
- 1Enfant (fils ou fille). Note d’usage : Utilisé généralement dans une construction possessive.
- 2Enfant (être humain jeune).
- 3Objet appartenant ou dérivant d’un autre objet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how child appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have two children.
[…] the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth, […].
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchild
- chhild
- chidl
- childd
- chilld
- chlid
- cihld
- hcild
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of child - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).