calico
\kæ.lɪ.koʊ\
The verdict
“calico” is uncommon French (frequency #87,417 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,417
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calicot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calico · calico · French
calico · rank #87,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,417
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calendaires
Nearest frequency peer: calendaires (-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 « calico »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cacahouète
cacahouète
12,590 corpus weight
- calendaires
calendaires
12,585 corpus weight
- calico
calico
12,584 corpus weight
- cameramen
cameramen
12,581 corpus weight
- Camil
Camil
12,580 corpus weight
- cannelée
cannelée
12,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calico » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calico |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kæ.lɪ.koʊ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calico » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calico is uncommon French at frequency #87,417 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kæ.lɪ.koʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for calico in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is calico, spelled C-A-L-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1Calicot.
- 2Chat à la robe calico.
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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