canes
\kan\
The verdict
“canes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,475
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canes · canes · French
canes · rank #75,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,475
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calédonienne
Nearest frequency peer: calédonienne (-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 « canes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calamine
calamine
24,529 corpus weight
- calculait
calculait
24,528 corpus weight
- calédonienne
calédonienne
24,527 corpus weight
- canes
canes
24,526 corpus weight
- canonnière
canonnière
24,525 corpus weight
- capitalise
capitalise
24,524 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canes is uncommon French at frequency #75,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cane.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for canes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 canes, spelled C-A-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cane.
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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