cantates
\kɑ̃.tat\
The verdict
“cantates” is uncommon French (frequency #62,837 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,837
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cantate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantates · cantates · French
cantates · rank #62,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,837
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canonnières
Nearest frequency peer: canonnières (-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 « cantates »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camaïeu
camaïeu
37,167 corpus weight
- cannettes
cannettes
37,166 corpus weight
- canonnières
canonnières
37,165 corpus weight
- cantates
cantates
37,164 corpus weight
- Cantin
Cantin
37,163 corpus weight
- cantonaux
cantonaux
37,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cantates » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cantates » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cantates is uncommon French at frequency #62,837 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.tat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cantate.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cantates, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cantates, spelled C-A-N-T-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cantate.
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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