canidés
\ka.ni.de\
The verdict
“canidés” is uncommon French (frequency #80,964 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,964
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de canidé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canides · canidés · French
canidés · rank #80,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,964
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH campaient
Nearest frequency peer: campaient (-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 « canidés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cambodgienn…
cambodgiennes
19,040 corpus weight
- campaient
campaient
19,038 corpus weight
- canidés
canidés
19,037 corpus weight
- cannibal
cannibal
19,036 corpus weight
- carafes
carafes
19,035 corpus weight
- carotène
carotène
19,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canidés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canidés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ni.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canidés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canidés is uncommon French at frequency #80,964 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ni.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de canidé.".
canidés has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is canidés, spelled C-A-N-I-D-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de canidé.
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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