cachalong
\ka.ʃa.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“cachalong” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme d’opale. Le mot a été attribué à la calcédoine puis à une variété d’agate mais désigne une opale opaque, sans iridescence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cachalong · cachalong · French
cachalong · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachalong |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃa.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cachalong is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʃa.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme d’opale. Le mot a été attribué à la calcédoine puis à une variété d’agate mais désigne une opale opaque, sans iridescence.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cachalong, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cachalong, spelled C-A-C-H-A-L-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Synonyme d’opale. Le mot a été attribué à la calcédoine puis à une variété d’agate mais désigne une opale opaque, sans iridescence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cachalong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quartz agate cacholong, le Cacholong, ou le Cachalong. Cette variété tient à peine aux quartz agates ; car elle est presqu’opaque, ou seulement un peu translucide sur ses bords, lorsqu’ils sont minces ; sa cassure est très-unie, ordinairement luisante. Sa couleur est le blanc de lait.
Ces instruments en silex bleu blanchâtre, possèdent des traces de cachalong.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.