caniculaire
\ka.ni.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“caniculaire” is uncommon French (frequency #69,655 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,655
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la canicule, très chaud, torride.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caniculaire · caniculaire · French
caniculaire · rank #69,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,655
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canaria
Nearest frequency peer: canaria (-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 « caniculaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camelots
camelots
30,350 corpus weight
- canaria
canaria
30,347 corpus weight
- caniculaire
caniculaire
30,346 corpus weight
- Capbreton
Capbreton
30,345 corpus weight
- carburateurs
carburateurs
30,344 corpus weight
- carnassier
carnassier
30,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caniculaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caniculaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ni.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caniculaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caniculaire is uncommon French at frequency #69,655 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ni.ky.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport à la canicule, très chaud, torride.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for caniculaire, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caniculaire, spelled C-A-N-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à la canicule, très chaud, torride.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caniculaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est par un jour caniculaire de la fin de juillet 1911, dans un long couloir étroit sur lequel donnaient, toutes portes ouvertes, les petites pièces étouffantes du Conseil supérieur de la guerre.
J'y ai surtout vu un soleil caniculaire de fin d'été qui plombe franc sud, sur les heures ouvrables.
This word in other languages
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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