Christmas
\ˈkɹɪs.məs\
The verdict
“Christmas” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,668
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noël (fête).
Corpus desk
Index FR-christmas · Christmas · French
Christmas · rank #26,668 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,668
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chief
Nearest frequency peer: chief (-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 « Christmas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chevron
chevron
73,336 corpus weight
- chicken
chicken
73,335 corpus weight
- chief
chief
73,334 corpus weight
- Christmas
Christmas
73,333 corpus weight
- Clotilde
Clotilde
73,331 corpus weight
- clôturer
clôturer
73,330 corpus weight
What this shows « Christmas » 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 | Christmas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɹɪs.məs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Christmas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Christmas (IPA \ˈkɹɪs.məs\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,668 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Noël (fête).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Christmas, with forms such as "cchristmas", "chhristmas", and "chirstmas". 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, "Christian", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Christmas, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Noël (fête).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchristmas
- chhristmas
- chirstmas
- chrismtas
- chrisstmas
- christams
- christmass
- christmmas
- christmsa
- christtmas
- chritsmas
- chrristmas
- chrsitmas
- crhistmas
- hcristmas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Christmas - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Christmas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (15 here; floor ≥5).