canon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,385
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
canon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce d’artillerie en forme de tube, et servant à lancer des projectiles, boulets, obus, etc. Pronounced \ka.nɔ̃\. It ranks #3,385 in French word frequency. Often confused with con and CNN.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.nɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,385 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 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for canon, with forms such as "acnon", "canno", and "canonn". 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, "con", "CNN", "caro", 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 canon, spelled C-A-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’artillerie en forme de tube, et servant à lancer des projectiles, boulets, obus, etc.
- 2Pièce d’artillerie en forme de tube, et servant à lancer des projectiles, boulets, obus, etc.
- 3Partie d’une arme à feu portative en forme de tube où l'on mettait autrefois la poudre et la balle et où on engage aujourd’hui la cartouche.
- 4Dispositif permettant de projeter diverses matières.
- 5Partie creuse d’un objet, tube.
- 6Partie de la jambe du cheval sous le genou et le jarret et au dessus du boulet et du paturon.
- 7Pièce vestimentaire décorative, faite de toile ornée de dentelle et de rubans, qui se portait attachée au-dessous du genou.
- 8Vase cylindrique en faïence utilisé autrefois par les pharmaciens d’officine, qui repose souvent sur un piédouche.
- 9Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Ce terme fait référence au fût du canon et non à la pièce d’artillerie dans son ensemble (fût/affût). C’est pourquoi on précise dans les blasonnements qu’il est affûté ou sur son affût.
- 10Ornement extérieur représentant l’arme du même nom. Généralement présenté par paires, ils servent de support aux armoiries.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnon,canno,canonn,caonn,ccanon,cnaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canon
Misspelling Variants of "canon"
Frequency rank: #3,385 in French
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