caliente
\ka.ljɛ̃.te\
The verdict
“caliente” is uncommon French (frequency #58,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,471
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaud, en chaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caliente · caliente · French
caliente · rank #58,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,471
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Caius
Nearest frequency peer: Caius (-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 « caliente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Béninoise
Béninoise
41,533 corpus weight
- cadettes
cadettes
41,532 corpus weight
- Caius
Caius
41,531 corpus weight
- caliente
caliente
41,530 corpus weight
- califes
califes
41,529 corpus weight
- calls
calls
41,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caliente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caliente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ljɛ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caliente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caliente is uncommon French at frequency #58,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ljɛ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaud, en chaleur.".
caliente doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 caliente, spelled C-A-L-I-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Chaud, en chaleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caliente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est la gardienne de caveaux la plus caliente au monde.
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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