canonniers
\ka.nɔ.nje\
The verdict
“canonniers” is uncommon French (frequency #57,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,147
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de canonnier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canonniers · canonniers · French
canonniers · rank #57,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,147
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH candie
Nearest frequency peer: candie (-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 « canonniers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cancan
cancan
42,857 corpus weight
- candi
candi
42,856 corpus weight
- candie
candie
42,855 corpus weight
- canonniers
canonniers
42,854 corpus weight
- capturent
capturent
42,852 corpus weight
- carnival
carnival
42,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canonniers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canonniers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canonniers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canonniers is uncommon French at frequency #57,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.nɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de canonnier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canonniers in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is canonniers, spelled C-A-N-O-N-N-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de canonnier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canonniers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La finesse de coup franc de Lionel Messi à la demi-heure de jeu face à Nice, samedi, a rappelé aux plus anciens les frappes tout en finesse de Maradona, Platini, Zico ; par opposition aux canonniers modernes que sont Juninho et Cristiano Ronaldo.
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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