Calaisis
\ka.le.zi\
The verdict
“Calaisis” is uncommon French (frequency #97,750 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,750
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne province et région naturelle du nord de la France dont la capitale est Calais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calaisis · Calaisis · French
Calaisis · rank #97,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,750
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caja
Nearest frequency peer: caja (-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 « Calaisis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cadbury
Cadbury
2,254 corpus weight
- caja
caja
2,252 corpus weight
- Calaisis
Calaisis
2,251 corpus weight
- calcinées
calcinées
2,250 corpus weight
- canale
canale
2,248 corpus weight
- caneton
caneton
2,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Calaisis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Calaisis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.le.zi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Calaisis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Calaisis is uncommon French at frequency #97,750 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.le.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne province et région naturelle du nord de la France dont la capitale est Calais.".
Calaisis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Calaisis, spelled C-A-L-A-I-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Ancienne province et région naturelle du nord de la France dont la capitale est Calais.
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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