Cancale
\kɑ̃.kal\
The verdict
“Cancale” is uncommon French (frequency #61,370 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,370
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancale · Cancale · French
Cancale · rank #61,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,370
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cambrousse
Nearest frequency peer: cambrousse (-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 « Cancale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calmés
calmés
38,634 corpus weight
- calvinisme
calvinisme
38,633 corpus weight
- cambrousse
cambrousse
38,632 corpus weight
- Cancale
Cancale
38,631 corpus weight
- canneberge
canneberge
38,630 corpus weight
- cannelés
cannelés
38,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cancale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cancale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.kal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cancale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cancale is uncommon French at frequency #61,370 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɑ̃.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cancale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cancale, spelled C-A-N-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cancale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les propriétaires d’îles en Bretagne, on peut ainsi citer les familles Bolloré et Mulliez ou Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, qui a racheté l’île des Rimains, située au large de Cancale, en 2012.
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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