Calixte
\ka.likst\
The verdict
“Calixte” is uncommon French (frequency #51,940 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,940
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom mixte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calixte · Calixte · French
Calixte · rank #51,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,940
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH callum
Nearest frequency peer: callum (+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 « Calixte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bérets
bérets
48,064 corpus weight
- Bérubé
Bérubé
48,063 corpus weight
- Calixte
Calixte
48,061 corpus weight
- callum
callum
48,060 corpus weight
- Camillo
Camillo
48,059 corpus weight
- canulars
canulars
48,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Calixte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Calixte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.likst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Calixte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Calixte is uncommon French at frequency #51,940 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.likst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom mixte.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Calixte in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Calixte, spelled C-A-L-I-X-T-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom mixte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Calixte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Madame Calixte Guintini, un instant, était venue, ce soir-là, dans notre baignoire.
Enfin, les sauveteurs d’août sont en poste : Marie Lemoine, Jules Le Faucheux, Calixte Calvez et Baptiste Huelvan.
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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