Caillaux
\ka.jo\
The verdict
“Caillaux” is uncommon French (frequency #68,875 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,875
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, notamment représenté par Joseph Caillaux, homme politique français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caillaux · Caillaux · French
Caillaux · rank #68,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,875
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cadot
Nearest frequency peer: Cadot (-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 « Caillaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caddies
caddies
31,129 corpus weight
- Cadot
Cadot
31,127 corpus weight
- Caillaux
Caillaux
31,126 corpus weight
- calas
calas
31,125 corpus weight
- calendaire
calendaire
31,124 corpus weight
- cambrure
cambrure
31,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Caillaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caillaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.jo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Caillaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Caillaux is uncommon French at frequency #68,875 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Caillaux in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Caillaux, spelled C-A-I-L-L-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, notamment représenté par Joseph Caillaux, homme politique français.
- 2Élément toponymique fréquent du domaine gascon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Caillaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Caillaux, intelligent, ne lui paraissait pas digne du poteau.
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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