canon à eau
\ka.nɔ̃ a o\
The verdict
“canon à eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif qui envoie de l’eau à haute pression, utilisé principalement dans la lutte contre l’incendie et par la police antiémeute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canon-a-eau · canon à eau · French
canon à eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canon à eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nɔ̃ a o\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
canon à eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.nɔ̃ a o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dispositif qui envoie de l’eau à haute pression, utilisé principalement dans la lutte contre l’incendie et par la police antiémeute.".
Zero misspellings are on record for canon à eau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is canon à eau, spelled C-A-N-O-N- -À- -E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Dispositif qui envoie de l’eau à haute pression, utilisé principalement dans la lutte contre l’incendie et par la police antiémeute.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.