calabrais
\ka.la.bʁɛ\
The verdict
“calabrais” is uncommon French (frequency #82,759 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,759
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Calabre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calabrais · calabrais · French
calabrais · rank #82,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,759
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caféier
Nearest frequency peer: caféier (-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 « calabrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- béal
béal
17,245 corpus weight
- Cachin
Cachin
17,244 corpus weight
- caféier
caféier
17,243 corpus weight
- calabrais
calabrais
17,242 corpus weight
- calculons
calculons
17,241 corpus weight
- calibration
calibration
17,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calabrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calabrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.la.bʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calabrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calabrais is uncommon French at frequency #82,759 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.la.bʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la Calabre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for calabrais, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is calabrais, spelled C-A-L-A-B-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Calabre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calabrais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
il [Quasimodo] était devenu en quelque façon singe et chamois, comme l'enfant calabrais qui nage avant de marcher, et joue, tout petit, avec la mer.
Devant moi, un grand gaillard, à figure toute blême enfouie dans une grosse barbe noire, des lunettes d’étudiant allemand, un chapeau de bandit calabrais.
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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