candélabres
\kɑ̃.de.labʁ\
The verdict
“candélabres” is uncommon French (frequency #71,330 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,330
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de candélabre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candelabres · candélabres · French
candélabres · rank #71,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,330
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cancún
Nearest frequency peer: Cancún (-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 « candélabres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- campait
campait
28,674 corpus weight
- campée
campée
28,673 corpus weight
- Cancún
Cancún
28,672 corpus weight
- candélabres
candélabres
28,671 corpus weight
- cannelures
cannelures
28,670 corpus weight
- cantonnent
cantonnent
28,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « candélabres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candélabres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.de.labʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « candélabres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
candélabres is uncommon French at frequency #71,330 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.de.labʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de candélabre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for candélabres in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is candélabres, spelled C-A-N-D-É-L-A-B-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de candélabre.
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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