calmar
\kal.maʁ\
The verdict
“calmar” is uncommon French (frequency #62,119 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,119
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étui de plumes à écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calmar · calmar · French
calmar · rank #62,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,119
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calembours
Nearest frequency peer: calembours (-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 « calmar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Béchar
Béchar
37,886 corpus weight
- calembours
calembours
37,883 corpus weight
- calmar
calmar
37,882 corpus weight
- calquer
calquer
37,881 corpus weight
- calumet
calumet
37,880 corpus weight
- canneberges
canneberges
37,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calmar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calmar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calmar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calmar is uncommon French at frequency #62,119 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for calmar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is calmar, spelled C-A-L-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Étui de plumes à écrire.
- 2Mollusque céphalopode à dix bras appartenant à l’ordre Teuthida.
- 3Chair cuisinée de cet animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calmar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] quel qu’en soit le nombre [des sens de « timbre »], nous ne les confondons jamais, pas plus que nous ne sommes troublés par la distance qu’il y a entre calmar, au sens de plumier, et calmar, au sens de seiche monstrueuse.
Le calmar géant existe réellement, mais c’est l’une des créatures de la mer les moins connues.
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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