canaria
\ka.na.ʁja\
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
- calvo
calvo
30,352 corpus weight
- camelots
camelots
30,350 corpus weight
- canaria
canaria
30,347 corpus weight
- caniculaire
caniculaire
30,346 corpus weight
- Capbreton
Capbreton
30,345 corpus weight
- carburateurs
carburateurs
30,344 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canaria » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canaria |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.na.ʁja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canaria » en français
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
- 1Race à viande de taurins, originaires d’Espagne (îles Canaries), à cornes en croissant et à robe fauve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canaria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le taurin canaria a été amené par les Espagnols en Amérique où il est appelé criollo.
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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