calèche

/\ka.lɛʃ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#33,590

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

calèche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Type de voiture hippomobile de promenade à quatre roues munies de ressorts et composée d'un siège extérieur à l'avant pour le conducteur et de quatre places arrières en vis-à-vis et ordinairement d... Pronounced \ka.lɛʃ\. Often confused with calée and cloche.

Key facts for calèche
PropertyValue
Headwordcalèche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.lɛʃ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#33,590
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for calèche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.lɛʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,590 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calèche, with forms such as "aclèche", "calcèhe", and "caleche". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "calée", "cloche", "crèche", 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 calèche, spelled C-A-L-È-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Type de voiture hippomobile de promenade à quatre roues munies de ressorts et composée d'un siège extérieur à l'avant pour le conducteur et de quatre places arrières en vis-à-vis et ordinairement découvertes avec une capote repliable pouvant les protéger.
  2. 2
    Je te suppose riche, mon cher Guillaume. Tu montes dans ta calèche de voyage; ton valet de chambre occupe le siége; on attelle deux chevaux de poste. — (Amable Tastu, Voyage en France, Tours : chez A. Mame & Cⁱᵉ, 1846, p. 7)
  3. 3
    À ma prière, mon père m’a donné le plus joli attelage qu’il soit possible de voir à Paris : deux chevaux gris-pommelé et une calèche de la dernière élégance. — (Honoré de Balzac, Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées, Chapitre 17)
  4. 4
    Il doit être là-bas, près des écuries où l’on attelle les chevaux à la calèche. — (Fédor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski, Carnet d’un inconnu)
  5. 5
    La calèche choisie par le poète et louée pour un mois, était assez jolie, elle pouvait servir à quelques promenades. — (Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon, 1844)
  6. 6
    De tous les pays circonvoisins, des campagnes et des villes, malades et infirmes, paralytiques, culs-de-jatte et pieds-bots accouraient dans des carrioles, dans des calèches, sur des ânes, sur leurs moignons calleux. — (Octave Mirbeau, Rabalan,)
  7. 7
    Ancienne coiffure de femme.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aclèche,calcèhe,caleche,callèche,calècche,calèceh,calèchhe,calèhce,caèlche,ccalèche,claèche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calèche

Misspelling Variants of "calèche"

aclèche7calcèhe7caleche7callèche8calècche8calèceh7calèchhe8calèhce7
Misspelling Variants of "calèche"

Frequency rank: #33,590 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "calèche"?
"calèche" is spelled C-A-L-È-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.lɛʃ\.
What does "calèche" mean?
As a noun, "calèche" means: Type de voiture hippomobile de promenade à quatre roues munies de ressorts et composée d'un siège extérieur à l'avant pour le conducteur et de quatre places arrières en vis-à-vis et ordinairement d...
What words are commonly confused with "calèche"?
"calèche" is commonly confused with "calée", "cloche", "crèche". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "calèche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "calèche" is \ka.lɛʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "calèche" come from?
"calèche" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.