calédoniens
\ka.le.dɔ.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“calédoniens” is uncommon French (frequency #67,357 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,357
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de calédonien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caledoniens · calédoniens · French
calédoniens · rank #67,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,357
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calédonien
Nearest frequency peer: calédonien (-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 « calédoniens »
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 « calédoniens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calédoniens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.le.dɔ.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calédoniens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calédoniens is uncommon French at frequency #67,357 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.le.dɔ.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de calédonien.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for calédoniens, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is calédoniens, spelled C-A-L-É-D-O-N-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel 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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