caloriques
\ka.lɔ.ʁik\
The verdict
“caloriques” is uncommon French (frequency #63,596 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,596
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calorique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caloriques · caloriques · French
caloriques · rank #63,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,596
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cailler
Nearest frequency peer: cailler (-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 « caloriques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cacique
cacique
36,409 corpus weight
- caillebotte
caillebotte
36,407 corpus weight
- cailler
cailler
36,406 corpus weight
- caloriques
caloriques
36,405 corpus weight
- camoufle
camoufle
36,403 corpus weight
- canvas
canvas
36,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caloriques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caloriques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.lɔ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caloriques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caloriques is uncommon French at frequency #63,596 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.lɔ.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de calorique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for caloriques, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caloriques, spelled C-A-L-O-R-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calorique.
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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