caillebotte
\kaj.bɔt\
The verdict
“caillebotte” is uncommon French (frequency #63,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,594
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masse de lait caillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caillebotte · caillebotte · French
caillebotte · rank #63,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,594
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cailler
Nearest frequency peer: cailler (+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 « caillebotte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabri
cabri
36,410 corpus weight
- cacique
cacique
36,409 corpus weight
- caillebotte
caillebotte
36,407 corpus weight
- cailler
cailler
36,406 corpus weight
- caloriques
caloriques
36,405 corpus weight
- camoufle
camoufle
36,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caillebotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caillebotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaj.bɔt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caillebotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caillebotte is uncommon French at frequency #63,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaj.bɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caillebotte, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caillebotte, spelled C-A-I-L-L-E-B-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Masse de lait caillé.
- 2Ancien nom de la caséine.
- 3Récipient pour le caillé ^([2]).
- 4Obier des bois ^([2]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caillebotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il dut faire un grand effort pour ne pas commettre une folie de grand-père et l’enlever, à deux heures du matin, encore chaude de sommeil entre ses langes et fleurant la caillebotte de berceau.
… un produit désigné indifféremment sous les noms de caillebotte, caséine, caséogomme, laclarine ou caséine précipitée du lait par le carbonate de soude et qu'on emploie à la place de l'albumine pour l'impression des étoffes et l'encollage des papiers.
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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