Caillet
The verdict
“Caillet” is uncommon French (frequency #64,296 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,296
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caillet · Caillet · French
Caillet · rank #64,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,296
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Béthanie
Nearest frequency peer: Béthanie (-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 « Caillet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- burgondes
burgondes
35,707 corpus weight
- Béthanie
Béthanie
35,706 corpus weight
- Caillet
Caillet
35,705 corpus weight
- calomnier
calomnier
35,704 corpus weight
- calèches
calèches
35,703 corpus weight
- camouflet
camouflet
35,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Caillet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Caillet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Caillet is uncommon French at frequency #64,296 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Caillet in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Caillet, spelled C-A-I-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Caillet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anthony Jeanjean (triple champion d’Europe, 3ᵉ des derniers Mondiaux), Istvan Caillet et Laury Perez (médaillée de bronze des Championnats d’Europe 2022) ont validé leur ticket pour la finale d’aujourd'hui.
Longtemps perçu comme une chasse gardée des quadras ou des quinquas, le marathon a aussi vu son peloton rajeunir « du fait de l’arrivée des néorunners », estime Virgile Caillet.
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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