calcification
\kal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“calcification” is uncommon French (frequency #92,514 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,514
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action, processus de ce qui se sature en sels de calcium solides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calcification · calcification · French
calcification · rank #92,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,514
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cagibi
Nearest frequency peer: cagibi (-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 « calcification »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caducée
caducée
7,490 corpus weight
- cagette
cagette
7,489 corpus weight
- cagibi
cagibi
7,488 corpus weight
- calcificati…
calcification
7,487 corpus weight
- calculera
calculera
7,486 corpus weight
- caloporteur
caloporteur
7,485 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calcification » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcification |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #92,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calcification » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calcification is uncommon French at frequency #92,514 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for calcification in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 calcification, spelled C-A-L-C-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action, processus de ce qui se sature en sels de calcium solides.
- 2Résultat de ce processus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calcification appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La calcification est le dépôt de sels de calcium dans les tissus morts ou en cours de dégénérescence.
Le coude a lui aussi été cassé, puis déformé par une calcification trop importante.
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); 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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