canal grand rond
\ka.nal ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“canal grand rond” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Orifice osseux de la base du crâne situé dans les grandes ailes de l’os sphénoïde.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canal grand rond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nal ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canal grand rond” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canal grand rond is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.nal ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Orifice osseux de la base du crâne situé dans les grandes ailes de l’os sphénoïde.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canal grand rond in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 grand rond, spelled C-A-N-A-L- -G-R-A-N-D- -R-O-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Orifice osseux de la base du crâne situé dans les grandes ailes de l’os sphénoïde.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-A-L- -G-R-A-N-D- -R-O-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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