Cannois
\ka.nwa\
The verdict
“Cannois” is uncommon French (frequency #65,766 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,766
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Cannes, commune française située dans le département des Alpes-Maritimes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cannois · Cannois · French
Cannois · rank #65,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,766
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caprins
Nearest frequency peer: caprins (+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 « Cannois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Calum
Calum
34,238 corpus weight
- cancel
cancel
34,237 corpus weight
- Cannois
Cannois
34,235 corpus weight
- caprins
caprins
34,234 corpus weight
- carbonisés
carbonisés
34,233 corpus weight
- cardi
cardi
34,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cannois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cannois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cannois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cannois is uncommon French at frequency #65,766 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.nwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Cannois, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Cannois, spelled C-A-N-N-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Cannes, commune française située dans le département des Alpes-Maritimes.
- 2Habitant de Cannes-Écluse, commune française située dans le département de la Seine-et-Marne.
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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