calques
\kalk\
The verdict
“calques” is uncommon French (frequency #54,453 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,453
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calques · calques · French
calques · rank #54,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,453
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calmera
Nearest frequency peer: calmera (-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 « calques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bustier
bustier
45,551 corpus weight
- calmera
calmera
45,549 corpus weight
- calques
calques
45,548 corpus weight
- capitan
capitan
45,547 corpus weight
- carmin
carmin
45,545 corpus weight
- carta
carta
45,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kalk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calques is uncommon French at frequency #54,453 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kalk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de calque.".
calques has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is calques, spelled C-A-L-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calque.
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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