cannelure
\kan.lyʁ\
The verdict
“cannelure” is an uncommon French word, ranked #95,653 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #95,653
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sillon creusé dans du bois, de la pierre ou dans un métal parallèlement à une arête.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cannelure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kan.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cannelure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cannelure is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kan.lyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #95,653 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cannelure, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cannelure, spelled C-A-N-N-E-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sillon creusé dans du bois, de la pierre ou dans un métal parallèlement à une arête.
- 2Stries profondes qu’on remarque sur la tige de certaines plantes.
- 3Défaut formé par ces stries dans le bois d’une tige.
- 4Gouttière ou sillon pratiqué sur divers instruments.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Using “cannelure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-N-E-L-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kan.lyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.