confit
\kɔ̃.fi\
The verdict
“confit” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,756. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,756
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialité culinaire de Gascogne à base de viande cuite dans de la graisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confit · confit · French
confit · rank #32,756 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,756
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH configurer
Nearest frequency peer: configurer (-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 « confit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Comtois
Comtois
67,248 corpus weight
- concentrez
concentrez
67,247 corpus weight
- configurer
configurer
67,246 corpus weight
- confit
confit
67,245 corpus weight
- conférant
conférant
67,244 corpus weight
- connect
connect
67,243 corpus weight
What this shows « confit » 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 | confit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around confit (IPA \kɔ̃.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,756 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for confit, with forms such as "cconfit", "cnofit", and "cofnit". 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, "cont", "conti", "confus", 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 confit, spelled C-O-N-F-I-T.
Definition
- 1Spécialité culinaire de Gascogne à base de viande cuite dans de la graisse.
- 2Bain dans lequel on trempe les peaux pour détruire le collagène. Il en existe de diverses compositions à l'origine il s'agissait d’excréments dilués, actuellement on utilise des enzymes comme la trypsine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sauf lady Makinson, ils mangèrent le confit d'oie que Mme Graux avait préparé comme ils eussent mangé n'importe quel plat anonyme dans un restaurant.
On a même surnommé le tanneur d'un village «crotte de poule», se moquant ainsi d'une de ses fonctions qui consistait à tremper les peaux dans le confit, cette solution de fiente de poule et d'eau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfit
- cnofit
- cofnit
- conffit
- confitt
- confti
- conift
- connfit
- ocnfit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confit - 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 "confit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).