calligraphe
\ka.li.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“calligraphe” is uncommon French (frequency #65,762 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,762
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle, qui est versé dans la calligraphie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calligraphe · calligraphe · French
calligraphe · rank #65,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,762
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bêtisier
Nearest frequency peer: bêtisier (-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 « calligraphe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Burgundy
Burgundy
34,242 corpus weight
- Burnley
Burnley
34,241 corpus weight
- bêtisier
bêtisier
34,240 corpus weight
- calligraphe
calligraphe
34,239 corpus weight
- Calum
Calum
34,238 corpus weight
- cancel
cancel
34,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calligraphe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calligraphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calligraphe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calligraphe is uncommon French at frequency #65,762 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.li.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle, qui est versé dans la calligraphie.".
calligraphe 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is calligraphe, spelled C-A-L-L-I-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle, qui est versé dans la calligraphie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calligraphe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La virtuosité d’un calligraphe fait également l’objet de l’admiration.
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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