canée
\ka.ne\
The verdict
“canée” is uncommon French (frequency #92,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,523
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter) Contenu d’une cruche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canee · canée · French
canée · rank #92,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,523
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH camées
Nearest frequency peer: camées (-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 « canée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calées
calées
7,482 corpus weight
- camées
camées
7,479 corpus weight
- canée
canée
7,478 corpus weight
- capricieuses
capricieuses
7,477 corpus weight
- captages
captages
7,476 corpus weight
- caracal
caracal
7,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canée is uncommon French at frequency #92,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for canée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is canée, spelled C-A-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter) Contenu d’une cruche.
- 2Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter) Genre de corbeille de l’antiquité grecque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Attendu que, dans ses conclusions du 8 juin 1858, l’intimée avait posé en fait que, depuis 1764, elle avait toujours retenu à son profit une partie du prix correspondante au droit de canées ; […]
3) Les « canées ». Nous rattachons à la même influence, l’exercice d’un droit singulier connu à Houdeng sous le nom de « canées ». Étymologiquement, le mot « canées » ou chanée, signifie le contenu d’une chane (pot, broc ou cruche) […]
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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