cageot
\ka.ʒo\
The verdict
“cageot” is uncommon French (frequency #91,489 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,489
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caisse en bois déroulé permettant le transport de fruits et légumes principalement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cageot · cageot · French
cageot · rank #91,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,489
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cag
Nearest frequency peer: cag (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cageot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cadière
cadière
8,515 corpus weight
- cag
cag
8,513 corpus weight
- cageot
cageot
8,512 corpus weight
- CAH
CAH
8,511 corpus weight
- Calatrava
Calatrava
8,509 corpus weight
- calcination
calcination
8,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cageot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cageot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʒo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cageot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cageot is uncommon French at frequency #91,489 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʒo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cageot, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 cageot, spelled C-A-G-E-O-T.
Definition
- 1Caisse en bois déroulé permettant le transport de fruits et légumes principalement.
- 2Laideron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cageot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cageot de légumes.
Il alla jusqu’au bout de la rue. Des camions arrivaient au trot, encombrant le marché de la Vallée de cageots pleins de volailles vivantes.
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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