calédonienne
\ka.le.dɔ.njɛn\
The verdict
“calédonienne” is uncommon French (frequency #75,474 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,474
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de calédonien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caledonienne · calédonienne · French
calédonienne · rank #75,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,474
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calculait
Nearest frequency peer: calculait (-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 « calédonienne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cadreur
cadreur
24,530 corpus weight
- calamine
calamine
24,529 corpus weight
- calculait
calculait
24,528 corpus weight
- calédonienne
calédonienne
24,527 corpus weight
- canes
canes
24,526 corpus weight
- canonnière
canonnière
24,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calédonienne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calédonienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.le.dɔ.njɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calédonienne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calédonienne is uncommon French at frequency #75,474 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.le.dɔ.njɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de calédonien.".
Zero misspellings are on record for calédonienne in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is calédonienne, spelled C-A-L-É-D-O-N-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de calédonien.
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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