calvinistes
\kal.vi.nist\
The verdict
“calvinistes” is uncommon French (frequency #51,331 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,331
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calviniste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calvinistes · calvinistes · French
calvinistes · rank #51,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,331
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calamiteux
Nearest frequency peer: calamiteux (-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 « calvinistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- buvons
buvons
48,674 corpus weight
- Bélisaire
Bélisaire
48,673 corpus weight
- calamiteux
calamiteux
48,671 corpus weight
- calvinistes
calvinistes
48,670 corpus weight
- candidater
candidater
48,667 corpus weight
- cant
cant
48,666 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calvinistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calvinistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.vi.nist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calvinistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calvinistes is uncommon French at frequency #51,331 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.vi.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de calviniste.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for calvinistes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is calvinistes, spelled C-A-L-V-I-N-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calviniste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calvinistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
François Hugo était un Afrikaner, un descendant de ces premiers colons hollandais, français ou allemands, tous fervents calvinistes, qui avaient débarqué dans la baie de la Table, non loin du Cap de Bonne-Espérance au XVIIe siècle. Mais lui préférait se définir comme un Burgher, un Boer. Un paysan.
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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