calottes
\ka.lɔt\
The verdict
“calottes” is uncommon French (frequency #57,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,143
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calottes · calottes · French
calottes · rank #57,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,143
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cachalot
Nearest frequency peer: cachalot (-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 « calottes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bénévent
Bénévent
42,861 corpus weight
- cachalot
cachalot
42,859 corpus weight
- calottes
calottes
42,858 corpus weight
- cancan
cancan
42,857 corpus weight
- candi
candi
42,856 corpus weight
- candie
candie
42,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calottes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calottes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calottes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calottes is uncommon French at frequency #57,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.lɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de calotte.".
calottes has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is calottes, spelled C-A-L-O-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calottes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’honneur de la France vestimentale sera sauvé le jour où les chapeaux gris à calottes rondes coûteront cent francs !
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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