Calvez
The verdict
“Calvez” is uncommon French (frequency #92,518 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,518
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calvez · Calvez · French
Calvez · rank #92,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,518
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calvaires
Nearest frequency peer: calvaires (-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 « Calvez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calcificati…
calcification
7,487 corpus weight
- calculera
calculera
7,486 corpus weight
- caloporteur
caloporteur
7,485 corpus weight
- calvaires
calvaires
7,484 corpus weight
- Calvez
Calvez
7,483 corpus weight
- calées
calées
7,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Calvez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Calvez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Calvez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Calvez is uncommon French at frequency #92,518 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Calvez, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Calvez, spelled C-A-L-V-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Calvez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, les sauveteurs d’août sont en poste : Marie Lemoine, Jules Le Faucheux, Calixte Calvez et Baptiste Huelvan.
Suite aux départs à la retraite d’Anne-Marie et Frédéric Calvez, la boulangerie éponyme fermera ses portes, ce dimanche.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).