caio
\kˈaj.u\
The verdict
“caio” is uncommon French (frequency #96,716 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,716
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de cair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caio · caio · French
caio · rank #96,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,716
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cadis
Nearest frequency peer: cadis (-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 « caio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bédarieux
Bédarieux
3,289 corpus weight
- cacharel
cacharel
3,287 corpus weight
- cadis
cadis
3,286 corpus weight
- caio
caio
3,285 corpus weight
- calent
calent
3,284 corpus weight
- camba
camba
3,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kˈaj.u\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caio is uncommon French at frequency #96,716 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kˈaj.u\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de cair.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for caio, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 caio, spelled C-A-I-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de cair.
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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