calcaire
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,444
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
calcaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est de la nature de la chaux, qui contient du carbonate de calcium. Pronounced \kal.kɛʁ\. It ranks #9,444 in French word frequency. Often confused with claire and calvaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kal.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for calcaire is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.kɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,444 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calcaire, with forms such as "aclcaire", "caclaire", and "calacire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "claire", "calvaire", "calcaires", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is calcaire, spelled C-A-L-C-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est de la nature de la chaux, qui contient du carbonate de calcium.
- 2Qualifie une eau dont la teneur en ions calcium et magnésium dépasse un certain seuil.
- 3Qui contient du carbonate de calcium.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclcaire,caclaire,calacire,calcaier,calcairre,calcarie,calccaire,calciare,callcaire,ccalcaire,clacaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calcaire
Misspelling Variants of "calcaire"
Frequency rank: #9,444 in French
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