canal
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,944
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
canal is aFrenchnoun. It means: Conduit par où l’eau passe. Pronounced \ka.nal\. It ranks #1,944 in French word frequency. Often confused with Carl and casa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canal is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.nal\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,944 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for canal, with forms such as "acnal", "caanl", and "canall". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Carl", "casa", "CNIL", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is canal, spelled C-A-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conduit par où l’eau passe.
- 2Voies naturelles par lesquelles les eaux, les vapeurs, les gaz, etc., circulent dans le sein de la terre, y pénètrent ou s’en échappent.
- 3Vaisseau. — Note d’usage : il se dit plus particulièrement de certaines parties dont les unes servent de couloirs à des substances liquides ou molles et dont d’autres renferment des organes particuliers.
- 4Lit ou cours d’une rivière.
- 5Tranchée creusée de main d’homme pour établir des communications par eau d’un lieu à un autre et faciliter le transport des denrées et des marchandises.
- 6Certaines pièces d’eau étroites et longues qui servent d’ornement dans les jardins.
- 7Certains lieux où la mer se resserre entre deux rivages.
- 8Voie, moyen, entremise dont on se sert pour quelque chose.
- 9Fréquence ou bande de fréquence utilisée pour une transmission.
- 10Ornement consistant en une moulure creuse ou une courte cannelure, obtenue par évidement des larmiers, des volutes, et en général de surfaces obtenues en creusant des corps de moulures.
- 11Zone conductrice d’un transistor à effet de champ, située entre la source et le drain, dans laquelle circule le courant électrique contrôlé par la grille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnal,caanl,canall,canla,cannal,ccanal,cnaal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canal
Misspelling Variants of "canal"
Frequency rank: #1,944 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: