Christopher
\kʁis.tɔ.fəʁ\
The verdict
“Christopher” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,132
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-christopher · Christopher · French
Christopher · rank #9,132 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,132
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chan
Nearest frequency peer: chan (-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 « Christopher »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cessez
cessez
90,872 corpus weight
- chaises
chaises
90,871 corpus weight
- chan
chan
90,870 corpus weight
- Christopher
Christopher
90,869 corpus weight
- châteaux
châteaux
90,868 corpus weight
- ciment
ciment
90,867 corpus weight
What this shows « Christopher » 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 | Christopher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁis.tɔ.fəʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Christopher »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Christopher (IPA \kʁis.tɔ.fəʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,132 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Christopher, with forms such as "cchristopher", "chhristopher", and "chirstopher". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Christoph", "Christophe", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Christopher, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Christopher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchristopher
- chhristopher
- chirstopher
- chrisotpher
- chrisstopher
- christohper
- christopehr
- christopherr
- christophher
- christophre
- christoppher
- christpoher
- christtopher
- chritsopher
- chrristopher
- chrsitopher
- crhistopher
- hcristopher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Christopher - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Christopher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).