cani
\ka.ni\
The verdict
“cani” is uncommon French (frequency #94,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,584
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bois qui commence à se pourrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cani · cani · French
cani · rank #94,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,584
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Candeloro
Nearest frequency peer: Candeloro (-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 « cani »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caillasser
caillasser
5,422 corpus weight
- calor
calor
5,420 corpus weight
- Candeloro
Candeloro
5,418 corpus weight
- cani
cani
5,417 corpus weight
- Canmore
Canmore
5,416 corpus weight
- cannelées
cannelées
5,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cani » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cani |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ni\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cani » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cani is uncommon French at frequency #94,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cani, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cani, spelled C-A-N-I.
Definition
- 1Bois qui commence à se pourrir.
- 2Odeur de pourriture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cani appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette serviette sent le cani.
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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