calebassier
\kal.ba.sje\
The verdict
“calebassier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de Crescentia cujete L.,famille des Bignoniacées (Bignoniaceae), grand arbre de l’Amérique tropicale dont le fruit, semblable à la courge, se nomme calebasse ou coui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calebassier · calebassier · French
calebassier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | calebassier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.ba.sje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
calebassier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.ba.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for calebassier in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 calebassier, spelled C-A-L-E-B-A-S-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Crescentia cujete L.,famille des Bignoniacées (Bignoniaceae), grand arbre de l’Amérique tropicale dont le fruit, semblable à la courge, se nomme calebasse ou coui.
- 2Fondeur, parfois itinérant, utilisant l’appareil nommé calebasse pour couler des métaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calebassier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fruit du calebassier est symbole de vie et de fécondité.
On les appelait alors calebassiers, du nom donné à leur rustique appareil de fusion qui composait l’essentiel de leur outillage : la calebasse portative.
This word in other languages
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