calculs

/\kal.kyl\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,168

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

calculs is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de calcul. Pronounced \kal.kyl\. It ranks #6,168 in French word frequency. Often confused with caucus and calcule.

Key facts for calculs
PropertyValue
Headwordcalculs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kal.kyl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,168
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of calculs in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for calculs is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.kyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,168 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de calcul.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for calculs, with forms such as "aclculs", "cacluls", and "calcculs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "caucus", "calcule", "calculer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is calculs, spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de calcul.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aclculs,cacluls,calcculs,calclus,calculls,calculss,calcusl,callculs,calucls,ccalculs,claculs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calculs

Misspelling Variants of "calculs"

aclculs7cacluls7calcculs8calclus7calculls8calculss8calcusl7callculs8
Misspelling Variants of "calculs"

Frequency rank: #6,168 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "calculs"?
"calculs" is spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kal.kyl\.
What does "calculs" mean?
As a noun, "calculs" means: Pluriel de calcul.
What words are commonly confused with "calculs"?
"calculs" is commonly confused with "caucus", "calcule", "calculer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "calculs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "calculs" is \kal.kyl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "calculs" come from?
"calculs" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.