caniculaires
\ka.ni.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“caniculaires” is uncommon French (frequency #97,757 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,757
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caniculaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caniculaires · caniculaires · French
caniculaires · rank #97,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,757
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carbonisation
Nearest frequency peer: carbonisation (+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 « caniculaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canale
canale
2,248 corpus weight
- caneton
caneton
2,246 corpus weight
- caniculaires
caniculaires
2,244 corpus weight
- carbonisati…
carbonisation
2,243 corpus weight
- cardia
cardia
2,242 corpus weight
- Carrache
Carrache
2,241 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caniculaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caniculaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ni.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caniculaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caniculaires is uncommon French at frequency #97,757 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ni.ky.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caniculaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caniculaires in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 caniculaires, spelled C-A-N-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caniculaire.
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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