Canigou
\ka.ni.ɡu\
The verdict
“Canigou” is uncommon French (frequency #58,479 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,479
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montagne des Pyrénées-Orientales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canigou · Canigou · French
Canigou · rank #58,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,479
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cancres
Nearest frequency peer: cancres (-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 « Canigou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Camargo
Camargo
41,526 corpus weight
- caméscope
caméscope
41,525 corpus weight
- cancres
cancres
41,523 corpus weight
- Canigou
Canigou
41,522 corpus weight
- cantonnées
cantonnées
41,521 corpus weight
- captées
captées
41,519 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Canigou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Canigou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ni.ɡu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Canigou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Canigou is uncommon French at frequency #58,479 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ni.ɡu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Montagne des Pyrénées-Orientales.".
Canigou has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Canigou, spelled C-A-N-I-G-O-U.
Definition
- 1Montagne des Pyrénées-Orientales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Canigou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À sa droite s’élevait ce mont immense que l’on appelle le Canigou, dont les flancs épanchent deux rivières dans la plaine.
Par chance, dans ce village au pied du Canigou, presque tout lui rappelle constamment sa terre catalane oubliée : quelques rues pavées et tortueuses, des maisons blanchies à la chaux, des acacias en fleur, des vergers, des vignes, […].
Synonyms
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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