calamars
\ka.la.maʁ\
The verdict
“calamars” is uncommon French (frequency #74,632 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,632
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calamar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calamars · calamars · French
calamars · rank #74,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,632
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calmars
Nearest frequency peer: calmars (+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 « calamars »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bust
bust
25,372 corpus weight
- Butterfield
Butterfield
25,371 corpus weight
- calamars
calamars
25,369 corpus weight
- calmars
calmars
25,368 corpus weight
- calot
calot
25,367 corpus weight
- camouflés
camouflés
25,366 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calamars » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calamars |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.la.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calamars » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calamars is uncommon French at frequency #74,632 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.la.maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de calamar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for calamars in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is calamars, spelled C-A-L-A-M-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calamar.
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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