canope
\ka.nɔp\
The verdict
“canope” is uncommon French (frequency #99,960 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,960
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ayant un couvercle surmonté d’une figure humaine en parlant des vases en terre employés à Canope dans le culte du dieu Osiris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canope · canope · French
canope · rank #99,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,960
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canonisée
Nearest frequency peer: canonisée (-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 « canope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cananéens
cananéens
44 corpus weight
- cannabinoïd…
cannabinoïdes
43 corpus weight
- canonisée
canonisée
42 corpus weight
- canope
canope
41 corpus weight
- canotier
canotier
40 corpus weight
- capitulatio…
capitulations
39 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.nɔp\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canope is uncommon French at frequency #99,960 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.nɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ayant un couvercle surmonté d’une figure humaine en parlant des vases en terre employés à Canope dans le culte du dieu Osiris.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for canope, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is canope, spelled C-A-N-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Ayant un couvercle surmonté d’une figure humaine en parlant des vases en terre employés à Canope dans le culte du dieu Osiris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cicéron demanda à Cléopâtre de lui faire venir quelques manuscrits et des vases canopes.
Synonyms
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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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