Cthulhu
\kty.ly\
The verdict
“Cthulhu” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,372
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créature de fiction imaginée par l’écrivain américain H. P. Lovecraft. Monstre humanoïde gigantesque, il possède une tête de pieuvre et des ailes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cthulhu · Cthulhu · French
Cthulhu · rank #43,372 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,372
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Crowley
Nearest frequency peer: Crowley (-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 « Cthulhu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crapule
crapule
56,633 corpus weight
- croisait
croisait
56,631 corpus weight
- Crowley
Crowley
56,630 corpus weight
- Cthulhu
Cthulhu
56,629 corpus weight
- cumulées
cumulées
56,628 corpus weight
- damné
damné
56,625 corpus weight
What this shows « Cthulhu » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cthulhu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kty.ly\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cthulhu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Cthulhu (IPA \kty.ly\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,372 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Créature de fiction imaginée par l’écrivain américain H. P. Lovecraft. Monstre humanoïde gigantesque, il possède une tête de pieuvre et des ailes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cthulhu, with forms such as "ccthulhu", "chtulhu", and "cthhulhu". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cthulhu, spelled C-T-H-U-L-H-U.
Definition
- 1Créature de fiction imaginée par l’écrivain américain H. P. Lovecraft. Monstre humanoïde gigantesque, il possède une tête de pieuvre et des ailes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cthulhu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dyer et Pabodie ont lu le Necronomicon et vu les peintures cauchemardesques de Clark Ashton Smith inspirées du texte ; ils comprendront quand je parle de ces Anciens qui passent pour avoir créé toute vie sur terre par plaisanterie ou par erreur. Les érudits ont toujours pensé que cette idée était née d’interprétations imaginaires morbides de très anciens…
« Dans la rue, personne ne connaît Lovecraft, mais certains connaissent Cthulu… », assure François Baranger, qui s’est attelé à l’édition d’une intégrale entièrement illustrée de l’œuvre de Lovecraft.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccthulhu
- chtulhu
- cthhulhu
- cthluhu
- cthuhlu
- cthulhhu
- cthullhu
- cthuluh
- ctthulhu
- ctuhlhu
- tchulhu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cthulhu - 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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