canary
\kəˈnɛə.ɹi\
The verdict
“canary” is uncommon French (frequency #70,456 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,456
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canari.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canary · canary · French
canary · rank #70,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,456
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canalisée
Nearest frequency peer: canalisée (-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 « canary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calibrés
calibrés
29,548 corpus weight
- Camilo
Camilo
29,547 corpus weight
- canalisée
canalisée
29,546 corpus weight
- canary
canary
29,545 corpus weight
- capitalisti…
capitalistique
29,544 corpus weight
- capitules
capitules
29,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kəˈnɛə.ɹi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canary is uncommon French at frequency #70,456 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kəˈnɛə.ɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Canari.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canary in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is canary, spelled C-A-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Canari.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).