cantonaux
\kɑ̃.tɔ.no\
The verdict
“cantonaux” is uncommon French (frequency #62,839 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,839
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cantonal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantonaux · cantonaux · French
cantonaux · rank #62,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,839
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cantin
Nearest frequency peer: Cantin (-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 « cantonaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- carnavalet
carnavalet
37,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cantonaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantonaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔ.no\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cantonaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cantonaux is uncommon French at frequency #62,839 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɑ̃.tɔ.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cantonal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cantonaux in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cantonaux, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cantonal.
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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