children
\ˈt͡ʃɪl.dɹən\
The verdict
“children” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,480
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de child.
Corpus desk
Index FR-children · children · French
children · rank #23,480 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,480
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiite
Nearest frequency peer: chiite (-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 « children »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chaplin
Chaplin
76,524 corpus weight
- chargeurs
chargeurs
76,523 corpus weight
- chiite
chiite
76,522 corpus weight
- children
children
76,521 corpus weight
- chrétienté
chrétienté
76,520 corpus weight
- church
church
76,519 corpus weight
What this shows « children » 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 | children |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈt͡ʃɪl.dɹən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « children »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around children (IPA \ˈt͡ʃɪl.dɹən\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,480 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de child.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for children, with forms such as "cchildren", "chhildren", and "chidlren". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chilien", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is children, spelled C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de child.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how children appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded, not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchildren
- chhildren
- chidlren
- childdren
- childern
- childrenn
- childrne
- childrren
- chilldren
- chilrden
- chlidren
- cihldren
- hcildren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of children - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "children", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).