canicules
\ka.ni.kyl\
The verdict
“canicules” is uncommon French (frequency #66,563 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,563
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de canicule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canicules · canicules · French
canicules · rank #66,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,563
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cador
Nearest frequency peer: cador (-2 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 « canicules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bérengère
Bérengère
33,442 corpus weight
- cador
cador
33,440 corpus weight
- canicules
canicules
33,438 corpus weight
- cardamome
cardamome
33,436 corpus weight
- caressa
caressa
33,435 corpus weight
- caribéenne
caribéenne
33,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canicules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canicules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ni.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canicules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canicules is uncommon French at frequency #66,563 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ni.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de canicule.".
canicules doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is canicules, spelled C-A-N-I-C-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de canicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canicules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des pluies éparses ou violentes, des épisodes cévenols, une tornade en Corse : après la vague des canicules et des grands incendies, la France connaît un « retour à la normale » chaotique.
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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