caniches
\ka.niʃ\
The verdict
“caniches” is uncommon French (frequency #77,324 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,324
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caniche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caniches · caniches · French
caniches · rank #77,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,324
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caporaux
Nearest frequency peer: caporaux (+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 « caniches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caducs
caducs
22,681 corpus weight
- campanella
campanella
22,679 corpus weight
- caniches
caniches
22,677 corpus weight
- caporaux
caporaux
22,676 corpus weight
- Carel
Carel
22,675 corpus weight
- cariatides
cariatides
22,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caniches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caniches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.niʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caniches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caniches is uncommon French at frequency #77,324 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.niʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caniche.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for caniches in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caniches, spelled C-A-N-I-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caniche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caniches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi que dès son arrivée en France, ce citoyen subitement désanémié s’est trouvé immédiatement investi de fonctions syndicales (???) avec la complicité d’une dizaine de radiotélégraphistes, caniches dévoués de leurs exploiteurs.
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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