cailler
\ka.je\
The verdict
“cailler” is uncommon French (frequency #63,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,595
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solidifier, coaguler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cailler · cailler · French
cailler · rank #63,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,595
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caillebotte
Nearest frequency peer: caillebotte (-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 « cailler »
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 « cailler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cailler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cailler is uncommon French at frequency #63,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cailler, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cailler, spelled C-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Solidifier, coaguler.
- 2Provoquer la coagulation.
- 3Faire froid.
- 4Avoir froid.
- 5Produire des crottes (volatiles).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lait caille.
On utilise de la présure pour cailler le lait.
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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