calor
\ka.ˈloɾ\
The verdict
“calor” is uncommon French (frequency #94,581 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,581
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calor · calor · French
calor · rank #94,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,581
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caillasser
Nearest frequency peer: caillasser (-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 « calor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cacahouètes
cacahouètes
5,424 corpus weight
- cachetons
cachetons
5,423 corpus weight
- caillasser
caillasser
5,422 corpus weight
- calor
calor
5,420 corpus weight
- Candeloro
Candeloro
5,418 corpus weight
- cani
cani
5,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ˈloɾ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calor is uncommon French at frequency #94,581 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ˈloɾ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaleur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for calor in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is calor, spelled C-A-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1Chaleur.
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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