calendar
\ˈkæl.ən.də\
The verdict
“calendar” is uncommon French (frequency #50,698 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,698
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calendrier (système de division de l’année).
Corpus desk
Index FR-calendar · calendar · French
calendar · rank #50,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,698
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calomnieuse
Nearest frequency peer: calomnieuse (+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 « calendar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- buraliste
buraliste
49,307 corpus weight
- bévue
bévue
49,306 corpus weight
- bêche
bêche
49,305 corpus weight
- calendar
calendar
49,303 corpus weight
- calomnieuse
calomnieuse
49,302 corpus weight
- Campanie
Campanie
49,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calendar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calendar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkæl.ən.də\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calendar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calendar is uncommon French at frequency #50,698 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkæl.ən.də\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
calendar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is calendar, spelled C-A-L-E-N-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1Calendrier (système de division de l’année).
- 2Calendrier (document représentant les dates d’une année ou des informations liées au temps).
- 3Agenda, calendrier (liste d’événements planifiés).
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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