calmés
\kal.me\
The verdict
“calmés” is uncommon French (frequency #61,367 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,367
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe calmer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calmes · calmés · French
calmés · rank #61,367 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,367
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calvinisme
Nearest frequency peer: calvinisme (+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 « calmés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brocéliande
Brocéliande
38,638 corpus weight
- cachons
cachons
38,636 corpus weight
- calmés
calmés
38,634 corpus weight
- calvinisme
calvinisme
38,633 corpus weight
- cambrousse
cambrousse
38,632 corpus weight
- Cancale
Cancale
38,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calmés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calmés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kal.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calmés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calmés is uncommon French at frequency #61,367 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kal.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe calmer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for calmés, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is calmés, spelled C-A-L-M-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe calmer.
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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