calculons
\kal.ky.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“calculons” is uncommon French (frequency #82,760 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,760
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe calculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calculons · calculons · French
calculons · rank #82,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,760
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calabrais
Nearest frequency peer: calabrais (-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 « calculons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cachin
Cachin
17,244 corpus weight
- caféier
caféier
17,243 corpus weight
- calabrais
calabrais
17,242 corpus weight
- calculons
calculons
17,241 corpus weight
- calibration
calibration
17,240 corpus weight
- Campbellton
Campbellton
17,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calculons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calculons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kal.ky.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calculons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calculons is uncommon French at frequency #82,760 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kal.ky.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for calculons, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is calculons, spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe calculer.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe calculer.
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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