califes
\ka.lif\
The verdict
“califes” is uncommon French (frequency #58,472 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,472
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calife.
Corpus desk
Index FR-califes · califes · French
califes · rank #58,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,472
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caliente
Nearest frequency peer: caliente (-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 « califes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Camargo
Camargo
41,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « califes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | califes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « califes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
califes is uncommon French at frequency #58,472 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.lif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de calife.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for califes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is califes, spelled C-A-L-I-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calife.
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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