cannelure
\kan.lyʁ\
The verdict
“cannelure” is uncommon French (frequency #95,653 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,653
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sillon creusé dans du bois, de la pierre ou dans un métal parallèlement à une arête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cannelure · cannelure · French
cannelure · rank #95,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,653
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitanat
Nearest frequency peer: capitanat (+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 « cannelure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Candiac
Candiac
4,350 corpus weight
- cannelure
cannelure
4,348 corpus weight
- capitanat
capitanat
4,347 corpus weight
- capito
capito
4,346 corpus weight
- capitonnée
capitonnée
4,345 corpus weight
- captieux
captieux
4,344 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cannelure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « cannelure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cannelure is uncommon French at frequency #95,653 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kan.lyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cannelure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cannelure orne bien une colonne. Les cannelures des consoles et des gaines sont plus petites à une extrémité qu’à l’autre.
Cannelures à vive arête. Cannelures à côte. Cannelures ornées.
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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