Cantin
\kɑ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“Cantin” is uncommon French (frequency #62,838 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,838
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantin · Cantin · French
Cantin · rank #62,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,838
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cantates
Nearest frequency peer: cantates (-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 « Cantin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- capi
capi
37,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cantin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cantin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cantin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cantin is uncommon French at frequency #62,838 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɑ̃.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cantin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Cantin, spelled C-A-N-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
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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