cantonnées
\kɑ̃.tɔ.ne\
The verdict
“cantonnées” is uncommon French (frequency #58,480 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,480
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe cantonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantonnees · cantonnées · French
cantonnées · rank #58,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,480
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Canigou
Nearest frequency peer: Canigou (-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 « cantonnées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caméscope
caméscope
41,525 corpus weight
- cancres
cancres
41,523 corpus weight
- Canigou
Canigou
41,522 corpus weight
- cantonnées
cantonnées
41,521 corpus weight
- captées
captées
41,519 corpus weight
- catégoriser
catégoriser
41,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cantonnées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantonnées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cantonnées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cantonnées is uncommon French at frequency #58,480 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ̃.tɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe cantonner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cantonnées in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 cantonnées, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N-N-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe cantonner.
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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