corridor
\kɔ.ʁi.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“corridor” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,664. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,664
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Galerie couverte, plus ou moins étroite, qui sert de passage pour aller à plusieurs appartements, à plusieurs pièces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corridor · corridor · French
corridor · rank #17,664 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,664
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consommée
Nearest frequency peer: consommée (-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 « corridor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confortables
confortables
82,340 corpus weight
- connasse
connasse
82,339 corpus weight
- consommée
consommée
82,338 corpus weight
- corridor
corridor
82,337 corpus weight
- coupez
coupez
82,336 corpus weight
- crochets
crochets
82,335 corpus weight
What this shows « corridor » 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 | corridor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁi.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « corridor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around corridor (IPA \kɔ.ʁi.dɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,664 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for corridor, with forms such as "ccorridor", "coridor", and "corirdor". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "corriger", "corridors", "corrida", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is corridor, spelled C-O-R-R-I-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Galerie couverte, plus ou moins étroite, qui sert de passage pour aller à plusieurs appartements, à plusieurs pièces.
- 2Espace géographique utilisé pour se déplacer entre deux lieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corridor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Karl ! Karl ! s’écria le landgrave en s’élançant comme un insensé dans le corridor où l’attendait son frère d’armes.
Aussitôt dispersée à travers les salles, en fuite dans les corridors, en ribambelle jusqu'en haut de l’escalier, l’armée se laissa balayer par la tempête de la déroute.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccorridor
- coridor
- corirdor
- corrdior
- corriddor
- corridorr
- corridro
- corriodr
- croridor
- ocrridor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of corridor - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).