CAH
The verdict
“CAH” is uncommon French (frequency #91,490 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,490
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Complexe argilo-humique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cah · CAH · French
CAH · rank #91,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,490
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cageot
Nearest frequency peer: cageot (-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 « CAH »
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 « CAH » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CAH |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CAH » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CAH is uncommon French at frequency #91,490 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for CAH in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CAH, spelled C-A-H.
Definition
- 1Complexe argilo-humique.
- 2Classification ascendante hiérarchique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CAH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette plante poussant sur les sols où il y a eu dissociation du CAH par les hydromorphismes avec libération d’Al⁺⁺⁺, de Fe⁺⁺⁺, et de nitrites, les productions végétales et animales de tels sols sont pathogènes pour l’homme et les animaux.
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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