calées
\ka.le\
The verdict
“calées” is uncommon French (frequency #92,519 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,519
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calees · calées · French
calées · rank #92,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,519
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Calvez
Nearest frequency peer: Calvez (-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 « calées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calculera
calculera
7,486 corpus weight
- caloporteur
caloporteur
7,485 corpus weight
- calvaires
calvaires
7,484 corpus weight
- Calvez
Calvez
7,483 corpus weight
- calées
calées
7,482 corpus weight
- camées
camées
7,479 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calées is uncommon French at frequency #92,519 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de calée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for calées in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is calées, spelled C-A-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calée.
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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