calas
\ka.la\
The verdict
“calas” is uncommon French (frequency #68,876 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,876
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de caler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calas · calas · French
calas · rank #68,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,876
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Caillaux
Nearest frequency peer: Caillaux (-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 « calas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cadot
Cadot
31,127 corpus weight
- Caillaux
Caillaux
31,126 corpus weight
- calas
calas
31,125 corpus weight
- calendaire
calendaire
31,124 corpus weight
- cambrure
cambrure
31,123 corpus weight
- camouflée
camouflée
31,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calas is uncommon French at frequency #68,876 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de caler.".
calas has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is calas, spelled C-A-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de caler.
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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