caïques
\ka.ik\
The verdict
“caïques” is uncommon French (frequency #73,812 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,812
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caïque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caiques · caïques · French
caïques · rank #73,812 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,812
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cayrol
Nearest frequency peer: Cayrol (-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 « caïques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caténaires
caténaires
26,192 corpus weight
- Cauterets
Cauterets
26,191 corpus weight
- Cayrol
Cayrol
26,190 corpus weight
- caïques
caïques
26,189 corpus weight
- centuple
centuple
26,188 corpus weight
- Cerberus
Cerberus
26,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caïques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caïques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caïques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caïques is uncommon French at frequency #73,812 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caïque.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for caïques in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is caïques, spelled C-A-Ï-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caïque.
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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