calquer
\kal.ke\
The verdict
“calquer” is uncommon French (frequency #62,120 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,120
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relever par transparence, ou en suivant le relief d'une gravure, les traits d’un dessin en suivant exactement ses contours avec une pointe, une plume ou un crayon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calquer · calquer · French
calquer · rank #62,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,120
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calmar
Nearest frequency peer: calmar (-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 « calquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Béchar
Béchar
37,886 corpus weight
- calembours
calembours
37,883 corpus weight
- calmar
calmar
37,882 corpus weight
- calquer
calquer
37,881 corpus weight
- calumet
calumet
37,880 corpus weight
- canneberges
canneberges
37,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kal.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calquer is uncommon French at frequency #62,120 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kal.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for calquer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is calquer, spelled C-A-L-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relever par transparence, ou en suivant le relief d'une gravure, les traits d’un dessin en suivant exactement ses contours avec une pointe, une plume ou un crayon.
- 2Imiter avec une exactitude servile.
- 3Emprunter comme un calque par traduire littéralement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Calquer à la pointe, à la vitre, à la gélatine.
Calquer une estampe, un plan.
This word in other languages
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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