cageots
\ka.ʒo\
The verdict
“cageots” is uncommon French (frequency #95,648 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,648
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cageot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cageots · cageots · French
cageots · rank #95,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,648
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caducité
Nearest frequency peer: caducité (-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 « cageots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- buvettes
buvettes
4,358 corpus weight
- cadastres
cadastres
4,355 corpus weight
- caducité
caducité
4,354 corpus weight
- cageots
cageots
4,353 corpus weight
- Candiac
Candiac
4,350 corpus weight
- cannelure
cannelure
4,348 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cageots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cageots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʒo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cageots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cageots is uncommon French at frequency #95,648 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʒo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cageot.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cageots, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cageots, spelled C-A-G-E-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cageot.
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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