canis
\ka.ni\
The verdict
“canis” is uncommon French (frequency #60,619 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,619
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cani.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canis · canis · French
canis · rank #60,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,619
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH camorra
Nearest frequency peer: camorra (-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 « canis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cabanis
Cabanis
39,385 corpus weight
- calembour
calembour
39,384 corpus weight
- camorra
camorra
39,383 corpus weight
- canis
canis
39,382 corpus weight
- capello
capello
39,381 corpus weight
- Carioca
Carioca
39,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canis is uncommon French at frequency #60,619 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cani.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for canis, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 canis, spelled C-A-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cani.
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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