caleçon parachute
\kal.sɔ̃ pa.ʁa.ʃyt\
The verdict
“caleçon parachute” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Caleçon ample, dont le tissu ne colle pas aux cuisses et donne ainsi l'impression que ces dernières sont plus minces.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caleçon parachute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.sɔ̃ pa.ʁa.ʃyt\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caleçon parachute” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caleçon parachute is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.sɔ̃ pa.ʁa.ʃyt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Caleçon ample, dont le tissu ne colle pas aux cuisses et donne ainsi l'impression que ces dernières sont plus minces.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caleçon parachute 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 caleçon parachute, spelled C-A-L-E-Ç-O-N- -P-A-R-A-C-H-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caleçon ample, dont le tissu ne colle pas aux cuisses et donne ainsi l'impression que ces dernières sont plus minces.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-L-E-Ç-O-N- -P-A-R-A-C-H-U-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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