canalise
\ka.na.liz\
The verdict
“canalise” is uncommon French (frequency #64,300 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,300
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe canaliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canalise · canalise · French
canalise · rank #64,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,300
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH camouflet
Nearest frequency peer: camouflet (-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 « canalise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calomnier
calomnier
35,704 corpus weight
- calèches
calèches
35,703 corpus weight
- camouflet
camouflet
35,702 corpus weight
- canalise
canalise
35,701 corpus weight
- Caraquet
Caraquet
35,700 corpus weight
- caravan
caravan
35,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canalise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canalise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.na.liz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canalise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canalise is uncommon French at frequency #64,300 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.na.liz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for canalise, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is canalise, spelled C-A-N-A-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe canaliser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe canaliser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe canaliser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe canaliser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe canaliser.
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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