Callisto
\ka.li.sto\
The verdict
“Callisto” is uncommon French (frequency #80,018 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,018
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nymphe d’une très grande beauté, suivante d’Artémis et ayant donc fait vœu de chasteté. Zeus s’éprit d’elle et l’engrossa par ruse. Il la changea en ourse pour la protéger de la colère d’Artémis, q...
Corpus desk
Index FR-callisto · Callisto · French
Callisto · rank #80,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,018
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Calliope
Nearest frequency peer: Calliope (-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 « Callisto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- béryllium
béryllium
19,986 corpus weight
- cafetier
cafetier
19,985 corpus weight
- Calliope
Calliope
19,984 corpus weight
- Callisto
Callisto
19,983 corpus weight
- calva
calva
19,982 corpus weight
- cambriolée
cambriolée
19,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Callisto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Callisto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.sto\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Callisto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Callisto is uncommon French at frequency #80,018 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.li.sto\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Callisto in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Callisto, spelled C-A-L-L-I-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Nymphe d’une très grande beauté, suivante d’Artémis et ayant donc fait vœu de chasteté. Zeus s’éprit d’elle et l’engrossa par ruse. Il la changea en ourse pour la protéger de la colère d’Artémis, qui réussit néanmoins à la tuer. Zeus la transforma alors en la constellation de la Grande Ourse.
- 2Satellite naturel de la planète Jupiter.
- 3(204) Callisto : Planète mineure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Callisto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les satellites des planètes géantes peuvent se classer en différents groupes. Jupiter possède quatre gros satellites découverts par Galilée au début du XVIIᵉ siècle : Io, Europe, Ganymède et Callisto, appelés satellites galiléens.
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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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