Corfou
\kɔʁ.fu\
The verdict
“Corfou” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,362
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de la mer Ionienne, en Grèce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corfou · Corfou · French
Corfou · rank #43,362 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,362
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cordillère
Nearest frequency peer: cordillère (-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 « Corfou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- convoitée
convoitée
56,642 corpus weight
- copy
copy
56,641 corpus weight
- cordillère
cordillère
56,640 corpus weight
- Corfou
Corfou
56,639 corpus weight
- corners
corners
56,638 corpus weight
- corrosif
corrosif
56,637 corpus weight
What this shows « Corfou » 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 | Corfou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.fu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Corfou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Corfou (IPA \kɔʁ.fu\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,362 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Corfou, with forms such as "ccorfou", "cofrou", and "corffou". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cornu", "corso", "Corot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Corfou, spelled C-O-R-F-O-U.
Definition
- 1Île de la mer Ionienne, en Grèce.
- 2La ville principale et capitale de cette île.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Corfou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Corfou est l’île la plus septentrionale des îles Ioniennes (2,307 km²), qui comprennent aussi Céphalonie, Cythère, Ithaque, Leucade, Paxos et Zante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccorfou
- cofrou
- corffou
- corfuo
- corofu
- corrfou
- crofou
- ocrfou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Corfou - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).