cacatoès
\ka.ka.tɔ.ɛs\
The verdict
“cacatoès” is uncommon French (frequency #81,848 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,848
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom normalisé donné à sept genres et 20 espèces d'oiseaux arboricoles et frugivores de l'ordre des psittaciformes et de la famille des cacatuidés, environ de la taille d'une corneille, caractérisés...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacatoès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ka.tɔ.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cacatoès” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cacatoès is uncommon French at frequency #81,848 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ka.tɔ.ɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom normalisé donné à sept genres et 20 espèces d'oiseaux arboricoles et frugivores de l'ordre des psittaciformes et de la famille des cacatuidés, environ de la taille d'une corneille, caractérisés...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cacatoès in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cacatoès, spelled C-A-C-A-T-O-È-S.
Definition
- 1Nom normalisé donné à sept genres et 20 espèces d'oiseaux arboricoles et frugivores de l'ordre des psittaciformes et de la famille des cacatuidés, environ de la taille d'une corneille, caractérisés par une grande huppe érectile formée de longues plumes, blanches, jaunes ou rouges, dont le déploiement change avec les émotions de l'oiseau, par un plumage qui varie du blanc au noir mais est dépourvu de bleu ou de vert contrairement aux autres psittaciformes, et que l'on rencontre exclusivement dans l'écozone australasienne.
This word in other languages
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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Using “cacatoès”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-C-A-T-O-È-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ka.tɔ.ɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.