Calabria
[ka.ˈlaː.brja]
The verdict
“Calabria” is uncommon French (frequency #99,954 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,954
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calabre, région d’Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calabria · Calabria · French
Calabria · rank #99,954 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,954
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calculettes
Nearest frequency peer: calculettes (+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 « Calabria »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cadrées
cadrées
50 corpus weight
- Caffarelli
Caffarelli
49 corpus weight
- Calabria
Calabria
47 corpus weight
- calculettes
calculettes
46 corpus weight
- caleta
caleta
45 corpus weight
- cananéens
cananéens
44 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Calabria » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Calabria |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ka.ˈlaː.brja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Calabria » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Calabria is uncommon French at frequency #99,954 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ka.ˈlaː.brja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Calabria, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Calabria, spelled C-A-L-A-B-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Calabre, région d’Italie.
- 2Ancienne division administrative du royaume de Sicile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Calabria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Calabria Citeriore o latina ; Calabria Ulteriore o greca.
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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