caillouteux
\ka.ju.tø\
The verdict
“caillouteux” is uncommon French (frequency #67,353 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,353
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contient des cailloux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caillouteux · caillouteux · French
caillouteux · rank #67,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,353
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cagliostro
Nearest frequency peer: Cagliostro (-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 « caillouteux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cachais
cachais
32,651 corpus weight
- cadavérique
cadavérique
32,650 corpus weight
- Cagliostro
Cagliostro
32,649 corpus weight
- caillouteux
caillouteux
32,648 corpus weight
- Callot
Callot
32,647 corpus weight
- calmants
calmants
32,646 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caillouteux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caillouteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ju.tø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caillouteux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caillouteux is uncommon French at frequency #67,353 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ju.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caillouteux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caillouteux, spelled C-A-I-L-L-O-U-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui contient des cailloux.
- 2Qualifie un style littéraire ou musical manquant d’harmonie, de fluidité.
- 3Qui est d'une rudesse désagréable
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caillouteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette rue, maintenant peu fréquentée, chaude en été, froide en hiver, obscure en quelques endroits, est remarquable par la sonorité de son petit pavé caillouteux.
Cette nappe caillouteuse à sa base, présente en couverture un dépôt limoneux brun, argileux, fortement oxydé […].
Synonyms
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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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