calédonien
\ka.le.dɔ.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“calédonien” is uncommon French (frequency #67,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,356
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Calédonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caledonien · calédonien · French
calédonien · rank #67,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,356
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calmants
Nearest frequency peer: calmants (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « calédonien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caillouteux
caillouteux
32,648 corpus weight
- Callot
Callot
32,647 corpus weight
- calmants
calmants
32,646 corpus weight
- calédonien
calédonien
32,645 corpus weight
- calédoniens
calédoniens
32,644 corpus weight
- Canadair
Canadair
32,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calédonien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calédonien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.le.dɔ.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calédonien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calédonien is uncommon French at frequency #67,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.le.dɔ.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for calédonien, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is calédonien, spelled C-A-L-É-D-O-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Calédonie.
- 2Relatif à la Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calédonien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mur d’Hadrien est construit à partir de 122 par les Romains sur toute la largeur de l’Angleterre pour protéger le Sud de l’île des attaques des tribus calédoniennes.
(Panoramix) Comme nous, nos cousins calédoniens sont de farouches guerriers qui résistent depuis toujours à l’envahisseur romain […]
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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