calibre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,350
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
calibre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Diamètre intérieur d’un tube quelconque. Pronounced \ka.libʁ\. It ranks #8,350 in French word frequency. Often confused with calice and calife.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calibre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.libʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for calibre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.libʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,350 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for calibre, with forms such as "aclibre", "cailbre", and "calbire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "calice", "calife", "cambre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is calibre, spelled C-A-L-I-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Diamètre intérieur d’un tube quelconque.
- 2Diamètre intérieur des armes à feu, des pièces d’artillerie.
- 3Grosseur du projectile, proportionnée à l’ouverture d’un revolver, d’un fusil, d’un canon.
- 4Taille d'un granulat.
- 5Arme à feu, en particulier pistolet ou révolver.
- 6Instrument qui sert à donner ou à mesurer le calibre.
- 7Volume ; grosseur ; taille.
- 8Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 9Profil découpé sur une plaque de métal ou sur une planche de bois qui sert à tracer les corniches de plâtre ou de stuc.
- 10Divers instruments dont la forme diffère, mais qui sont en général destinés à servir de mesure, de moule, de patron.
- 11Modèle d’une pièce de verre en papier bulle obtenu lors du calibrage du tracé d'un vitrail.
- 12Qualité, état d’une personne.
- 13Distance entre la ligne de base et l’alignement supérieur des bas de casse correspondant aux minuscules dites courtes, dépourvues de parties ascendantes ou descendantes, telles que o, m, u et des petites capitales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclibre,cailbre,calbire,calibbre,caliber,calibrre,calirbe,callibre,ccalibre,claibre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calibre
Misspelling Variants of "calibre"
Frequency rank: #8,350 in French
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Nearby French words
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