calleux
\ka.lø\
The verdict
“calleux” is uncommon French (frequency #93,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,568
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui présente des cals, des callosités sur la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calleux · calleux · French
calleux · rank #93,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,568
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caldas
Nearest frequency peer: caldas (-2 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 « calleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- béotien
béotien
6,437 corpus weight
- calant
calant
6,436 corpus weight
- caldas
caldas
6,435 corpus weight
- calleux
calleux
6,433 corpus weight
- cambriole
cambriole
6,431 corpus weight
- candides
candides
6,430 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.lø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calleux is uncommon French at frequency #93,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui présente des cals, des callosités sur la peau.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for calleux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is calleux, spelled C-A-L-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui présente des cals, des callosités sur la peau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Merci à mon tour pour ce que vous dites de mon fils, Belhumeur, répondit la vieille dame en serrant la main calleuse du chasseur.
Le vieux garde rapprochait sa chaise de la cheminée où croulaient des tisons ardents, il se rôtissait les jambes, et passant dans la flamme ses mains calleuses, il les frottait d’un air de satisfaction.
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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