calculot
\kal.ky.lo\
The verdict
“calculot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom régional du Macareux moine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calculot · calculot · French
calculot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | calculot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.ky.lo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calculot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calculot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.ky.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom régional du Macareux moine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for calculot in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 calculot, spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom régional du Macareux moine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calculot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien de plus singulier et de plus comique que la physionomie de ces calculots. Ils vous regardent en passant d’un air si sérieux !
À la réserve naturelle des Sept-Îles, même si la chasse et la perturbation des macareux est interdite et que des mesures de protection et de surveillance multiples sont appliquées, on compte à peine 200 couples de calculots (comme on les appelait localement) qui reviennent chaque année.
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.