canotier
\ka.nɔ.tje\
The verdict
“canotier” is uncommon French (frequency #99,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,961
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux canots et à leur équipage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canotier · canotier · French
canotier · rank #99,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,961
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canope
Nearest frequency peer: canope (-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 « canotier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- capuchons
capuchons
38 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canotier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canotier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.nɔ.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canotier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canotier is uncommon French at frequency #99,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.nɔ.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux canots et à leur équipage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for canotier in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is canotier, spelled C-A-N-O-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux canots et à leur équipage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canotier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai reçu hier de notre jeune ami Maupassant une épître fort agréable et pleine du détail de ses lubricités canotières avec une grosse femme.
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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