cancres
\kɑ̃kʁ\
The verdict
“cancres” is uncommon French (frequency #58,478 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,478
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cancre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancres · cancres · French
cancres · rank #58,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,478
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Canigou
Nearest frequency peer: Canigou (+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 « cancres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Camargo
Camargo
41,526 corpus weight
- caméscope
caméscope
41,525 corpus weight
- cancres
cancres
41,523 corpus weight
- Canigou
Canigou
41,522 corpus weight
- cantonnées
cantonnées
41,521 corpus weight
- captées
captées
41,519 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cancres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃kʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cancres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cancres is uncommon French at frequency #58,478 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃kʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cancre.".
cancres doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cancres, spelled C-A-N-C-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cancre.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).