Cantique des Cantiques
\kɑ̃.tik de kɑ̃.tik\
The verdict
“Cantique des Cantiques” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom du vingt-sixième livre de l’Ancien Testament, composé de huit chapitres. Ce livre narre l'histoire de Salomon, qui y fit l’éloge de la reine de Saba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cantique des Cantiques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tik de kɑ̃.tik\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cantique des Cantiques” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Cantique des Cantiques is 22 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.tik de kɑ̃.tik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom du vingt-sixième livre de l’Ancien Testament, composé de huit chapitres. Ce livre narre l'histoire de Salomon, qui y fit l’éloge de la reine de Saba.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cantique des Cantiques in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Cantique des Cantiques, spelled C-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E- -D-E-S- -C-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom du vingt-sixième livre de l’Ancien Testament, composé de huit chapitres. Ce livre narre l'histoire de Salomon, qui y fit l’éloge de la reine de Saba.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E- -D-E-S- -C-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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