canaria

\ka.na.ʁja\

/\ka.na.ʁja\/ noun

The verdict

“canaria” is uncommon French (frequency #69,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,654
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race à viande de taurins, originaires d’Espagne (îles Canaries), à cornes en croissant et à robe fauve.

Corpus desk

Index FR-canaria · canaria · French

canaria · rank #69,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,654
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH caniculaire

Nearest frequency peer: caniculaire (+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 « canaria »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canaria » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for canaria
PropertyValue
Headwordcanaria
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.na.ʁja\
Letters7
Frequency rank#69,654
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « canaria » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.canariatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « caniculaire » (#69,655), « Capbreton » (#69,656), « camelots » (#69,651). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « canaria » est au #69,654. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

canaria is uncommon French at frequency #69,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.na.ʁja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race à viande de taurins, originaires d’Espagne (îles Canaries), à cornes en croissant et à robe fauve.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for canaria, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is canaria, spelled C-A-N-A-R-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Race à viande de taurins, originaires d’Espagne (îles Canaries), à cornes en croissant et à robe fauve.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how canaria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le taurin canaria a été amené par les Espagnols en Amérique où il est appelé criollo.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "canaria"?
"canaria" is spelled C-A-N-A-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.na.ʁja\.
What does "canaria" mean?
As a noun, "canaria" means: Race à viande de taurins, originaires d’Espagne (îles Canaries), à cornes en croissant et à robe fauve.
How do you pronounce "canaria"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "canaria" is \ka.na.ʁja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "canaria" come from?
"canaria" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "canaria", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list