canne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,445
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
canne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de roseau, telle que le roseau, la canne d’Inde, la canne à sucre, le bambou, etc. Pronounced \kan\. It ranks #9,445 in French word frequency. Often confused with CNN and CNE.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kan\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,445 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for canne, with forms such as "acnne", "canen", and "ccanne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CNN", "CNE", "case", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is canne, spelled C-A-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de roseau, telle que le roseau, la canne d’Inde, la canne à sucre, le bambou, etc.
- 2Tige ou racine qui ne se trouve plus aujourd’hui dans le commerce, et qui provenait du Calamus aromaticus.
- 3Bâton léger sur lequel on s’appuie de la main en marchant, souvent fait de roseau, de jonc ou de bois.
- 4Instrument long et cylindrique dont les usages diffèrent.
- 5Mesure de longueur employée en divers pays, particulièrement en Italie, et dont la valeur n’est pas constante ; celle de Naples vaut deux mètres vingt-neuf centimètres.
- 6Boîte de conserve (de l’anglais can).
- 7Bidon (pour le lait).
- 8Ellipse de canne de combat, sport de combat opposant deux adversaires équipés chacun d’une canne en bois de châtaignier longue de 95 cm.
- 9Érection.
- 10Jambe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnne,canen,ccanne,cnane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canne
Misspelling Variants of "canne"
Frequency rank: #9,445 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: