cajoler
\ka.ʒɔ.le\
The verdict
“cajoler” is uncommon French (frequency #78,220 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,220
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montrer sa tendresse par des gestes doux, caressants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cajoler · cajoler · French
cajoler · rank #78,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,220
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cado
Nearest frequency peer: cado (-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 « cajoler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- buquet
buquet
21,785 corpus weight
- bénéficions
bénéficions
21,784 corpus weight
- Cadmus
Cadmus
21,783 corpus weight
- cado
cado
21,782 corpus weight
- cajoler
cajoler
21,781 corpus weight
- calamar
calamar
21,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cajoler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cajoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʒɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cajoler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cajoler is uncommon French at frequency #78,220 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ʒɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cajoler in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cajoler, spelled C-A-J-O-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Montrer sa tendresse par des gestes doux, caressants.
- 2Flatter, entretenir quelqu’un de choses qui lui plaisent et qui le touchent.
- 3Tâcher de séduire par de belles paroles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cajoler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-être auriez-vous désiré que je vinsse vous cajoler ?…
— C’est madame de Chasteller, une veuve que tous ces beaux messieurs de la noblesse cajolent, parce qu’elle a des millions.
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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