calcédoine
\kal.se.dwan\
The verdict
“calcédoine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre précieuse de couleur bleue ou jaunâtre, mélange de quartz et de moganite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calcedoine · calcédoine · French
calcédoine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcédoine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.se.dwan\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calcédoine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calcédoine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.se.dwan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pierre précieuse de couleur bleue ou jaunâtre, mélange de quartz et de moganite.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for calcédoine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 calcédoine, spelled C-A-L-C-É-D-O-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre précieuse de couleur bleue ou jaunâtre, mélange de quartz et de moganite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calcédoine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous un voile bleuâtre lui cachant la poitrine et la tête, on distinguait les arcs de ses yeux, les calcédoines de ses oreilles, la blancheur de sa peau.
Je devrais maintenant énumérer les marchandises qu’on y achète avec bénéfice : agate, onyx, chrysoprase, et d’autres variétés de calcédoine ; louer la chair du faisan doré qu’on y cuisine sur la flamme du bois de cerisier sec et qu’on saupoudre de beaucoup d’origan ; parler des femmes que j’ai vues prendre leur bain dans le bassin d’un jardin et qui parfo…
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.