calamar
\ka.la.maʁ\
The verdict
“calamar” is uncommon French (frequency #78,221 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,221
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de calmar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calamar · calamar · French
calamar · rank #78,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,221
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cajoler
Nearest frequency peer: cajoler (-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 « calamar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- campagna
campagna
21,777 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calamar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calamar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.la.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calamar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calamar is uncommon French at frequency #78,221 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.la.maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de calmar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for calamar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 calamar, spelled C-A-L-A-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Variante de calmar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calamar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Couper les calamars en cubes de 2.5 cm et les réserver.
De nombreuses espèces de calamars et de poissons vivent à proximité de la surface de la mer.
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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