Cagliostro
\ka.jɔs.tʁo\
The verdict
“Cagliostro” is uncommon French (frequency #67,352 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,352
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pseudo-titre comtal de Giuseppe Balsamo, aventurier sicilien (1743-1795).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cagliostro · Cagliostro · French
Cagliostro · rank #67,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,352
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cadavérique
Nearest frequency peer: cadavérique (-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 « Cagliostro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabre
cabre
32,652 corpus weight
- cachais
cachais
32,651 corpus weight
- cadavérique
cadavérique
32,650 corpus weight
- Cagliostro
Cagliostro
32,649 corpus weight
- caillouteux
caillouteux
32,648 corpus weight
- Callot
Callot
32,647 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cagliostro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cagliostro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.jɔs.tʁo\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cagliostro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cagliostro is uncommon French at frequency #67,352 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.jɔs.tʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pseudo-titre comtal de Giuseppe Balsamo, aventurier sicilien (1743-1795).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cagliostro in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Cagliostro, spelled C-A-G-L-I-O-S-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1Pseudo-titre comtal de Giuseppe Balsamo, aventurier sicilien (1743-1795).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cagliostro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son nom d’abord intriguait, et puis la façon vraiment impressionnante qu’elle avait de s’apparenter au fameux Cagliostro par ses allures mystérieuses, certaines guérisons miraculeuses qu’elle opéra, les réponses qu’elle donnait aux gens qui la consultaient sur leur passé ou sur leur avenir.
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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