Caliban
\ka.li.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“Caliban” is uncommon French (frequency #90,504 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,504
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage de Shakespeare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caliban · Caliban · French
Caliban · rank #90,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,504
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cabestany
Nearest frequency peer: Cabestany (-2 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 « Caliban »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabanons
cabanons
9,501 corpus weight
- cabasse
cabasse
9,500 corpus weight
- Cabestany
Cabestany
9,499 corpus weight
- Caliban
Caliban
9,497 corpus weight
- campant
campant
9,495 corpus weight
- Canidé
Canidé
9,494 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Caliban » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caliban |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Caliban » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Caliban is uncommon French at frequency #90,504 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.li.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Caliban doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Caliban, spelled C-A-L-I-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Personnage de Shakespeare.
- 2Satellite naturel de la planète Uranus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Caliban appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une femme d’aspect redoutable : Léon Daudet la surnommait « Sycorax » – la mère de Caliban.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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