calot
\ka.lo\
The verdict
“calot” is uncommon French (frequency #74,634 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,634
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite calotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calot · calot · French
calot · rank #74,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,634
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calmars
Nearest frequency peer: calmars (-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 « calot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calamars
calamars
25,369 corpus weight
- calmars
calmars
25,368 corpus weight
- calot
calot
25,367 corpus weight
- camouflés
camouflés
25,366 corpus weight
- canins
canins
25,365 corpus weight
- Carbonne
Carbonne
25,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calot is uncommon French at frequency #74,634 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for calot in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is calot, spelled C-A-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Petite calotte.
- 2Coiffure des soldats, de forme allongée, sans bords.
- 3Coiffure plate de drap portée par les étudiants, les conscrits, les anciens combattants, les membres de divers corps ou de diverses associations.
- 4Coiffe féminine en forme de bonnet ou de toque.
- 5Teigneux.
- 6Testicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Calot d’enfant de chœur.
Or j’eus comme voisin de lit un aumônier du genre fier et silencieux, qui s’équipait en musulman pour les tirailleurs marocains. Le croissant sur son calot était un beau sujet de plaisanterie.
Synonyms
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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