canins
\ka.nɛ̃\
The verdict
“canins” is uncommon French (frequency #74,636 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,636
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de canin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canins · canins · French
canins · rank #74,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,636
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH camouflés
Nearest frequency peer: camouflés (-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 « canins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calmars
calmars
25,368 corpus weight
- calot
calot
25,367 corpus weight
- camouflés
camouflés
25,366 corpus weight
- canins
canins
25,365 corpus weight
- Carbonne
Carbonne
25,364 corpus weight
- casaque
casaque
25,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canins is uncommon French at frequency #74,636 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.nɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de canin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canins in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is canins, spelled C-A-N-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de canin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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