calebasse
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#70,452
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
calebasse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit du calebassier. Pronounced \kal.bas\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calebasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.bas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for calebasse is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.bas\. Corpus data places it at rank #70,452 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for calebasse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 calebasse, spelled C-A-L-E-B-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit du calebassier.
- 2Un de ces fruits, vidé et séché, et qui sert à contenir des boissons et à divers autres emplois.
- 3Nom usuel en Afrique francophone de la plante et de son fruit, de la famille des Cucurbitaceae (Cucurbitacées), nommés Lagenaria siceraria, dont les fruits jeunes sont mangés cuits. Le fruit sec, mature et évidé est utilisé comme contenant.
- 4Tête.
- 5Petit appareil, proche du cubilot, utilisé pour fondre des métaux en petite quantité.
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Frequency rank: #70,452 in French
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