câliner
\kɑ.li.ne\
The verdict
“câliner” is uncommon French (frequency #56,530 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,530
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traiter avec douceur, caresser quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caliner · câliner · French
câliner · rank #56,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,530
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cytoplasme
Nearest frequency peer: cytoplasme (-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 « câliner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- croupier
croupier
43,474 corpus weight
- crésus
crésus
43,473 corpus weight
- cytoplasme
cytoplasme
43,472 corpus weight
- câliner
câliner
43,471 corpus weight
- dalla
dalla
43,469 corpus weight
- Dammartin
Dammartin
43,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « câliner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | câliner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ.li.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « câliner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
câliner is uncommon French at frequency #56,530 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ.li.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
câliner has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is câliner, spelled C-Â-L-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Traiter avec douceur, caresser quelqu’un.
- 2Vivre dans l’inaction, l’oisiveté.
- 3Être indolent, prendre ses aises.
- 4(réciproque) Échanger avec douceur, des caresses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how câliner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il câline trop cet enfant, il le gâtera. Une petite fille aime à se faire câliner.
« Dépêche té donc, caleuse, en v’là eine affaire pour aller à Picquigny, tu t’auras assez câliné.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).