canoës
\ka.nɔ.e\
The verdict
“canoës” is uncommon French (frequency #73,802 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,802
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de canoë.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canoes · canoës · French
canoës · rank #73,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,802
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capel
Nearest frequency peer: capel (+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 « canoës »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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camelote
26,202 corpus weight
- camionnage
camionnage
26,201 corpus weight
- canoës
canoës
26,199 corpus weight
- capel
capel
26,198 corpus weight
- CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA
26,197 corpus weight
- cartilages
cartilages
26,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canoës » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canoës |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nɔ.e\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canoës » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canoës is uncommon French at frequency #73,802 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.nɔ.e\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de canoë.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for canoës in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 canoës, spelled C-A-N-O-Ë-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de canoë.
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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