caleçon
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,073
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
caleçon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement de dessous en forme de pantalon ou de culotte et qui couvre le corps depuis la ceinture jusqu’à mi-cuisse, jusqu’aux genoux ou jusqu’à la cheville. Pronounced \kal.sɔ̃\. Often confused with Cameron and calepin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caleçon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caleçon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.sɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,073 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for caleçon, with forms such as "acleçon", "caelçon", and "calecon". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Cameron", "calepin", "caleçons", 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 caleçon, spelled C-A-L-E-Ç-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement de dessous en forme de pantalon ou de culotte et qui couvre le corps depuis la ceinture jusqu’à mi-cuisse, jusqu’aux genoux ou jusqu’à la cheville.
- 2Préparation de condiments en feuilleté.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acleçon,caelçon,calecon,caleoçn,caleçno,caleçonn,calleçon,calçeon,ccaleçon,claeçon
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Misspelling Variants of "caleçon"
Frequency rank: #20,073 in French
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