Christophe
\kʁis.tɔf\
The verdict
“Christophe” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,126
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-christophe · Christophe · French
Christophe · rank #3,126 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,126
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cellules
Nearest frequency peer: cellules (-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 « Christophe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bureaux
bureaux
96,878 corpus weight
- business
business
96,877 corpus weight
- cellules
cellules
96,876 corpus weight
- Christophe
Christophe
96,875 corpus weight
- combattre
combattre
96,874 corpus weight
- commencent
commencent
96,873 corpus weight
What this shows « Christophe » 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 | Christophe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁis.tɔf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Christophe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Christophe (IPA \kʁis.tɔf\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,126 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Christophe, with forms such as "cchristophe", "chhristophe", and "chirstophe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Christopher", "Christoph", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 Christophe, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Christophe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi le voyageur, sur la terre d’Afrique, quoi qu’il fasse et quoi qu’il veuille, est toujours Christophe avec son long bâton, portant, auprès de sa tête inclinée, l’Enfant avec le globe et l’auréole de lumière invisible.
« Vient qui veut, quel que soit son bord politique. La démarche est apartisane », présente Christophe Cassou, climatologue au CNRS et auteur du Groupe intergouvernemental du climat (Giec).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchristophe
- chhristophe
- chirstophe
- chrisotphe
- chrisstophe
- christohpe
- christopeh
- christophhe
- christopphe
- christpohe
- christtophe
- chritsophe
- chrristophe
- chrsitophe
- crhistophe
- hcristophe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Christophe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).