calcination
\kal.si.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“calcination” is uncommon French (frequency #91,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,493
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de calciner ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calcination · calcination · French
calcination · rank #91,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,493
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Calatrava
Nearest frequency peer: Calatrava (-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 « calcination »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CAH
CAH
8,511 corpus weight
- Calatrava
Calatrava
8,509 corpus weight
- calcination
calcination
8,508 corpus weight
- cambio
cambio
8,507 corpus weight
- camellia
camellia
8,506 corpus weight
- canonical
canonical
8,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calcination » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.si.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calcination » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calcination is uncommon French at frequency #91,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.si.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de calciner ou résultat de cette action.".
No misspelling variants are generated for calcination in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is calcination, spelled C-A-L-C-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de calciner ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calcination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon que le morceau [de viande] fut mangé bouilli, grillé, rôti ou jeté dans le feu, la teinte [que prennent les os] ira du marron le plus léger, signe d’un bref moment de chauffe, au blanc le plus crayeux, témoin de la calcination dans un foyer.
La particularité de la ressource ocrière de Puisaye réside en la présence d’une ocre pure à l’état naturel. De cette ocre jaune naît l’ocre rouge, par calcination, offrant des dégradés de nuances variées et chaleureuses […].
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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