cantonnements
\kɑ̃.tɔn.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“cantonnements” is uncommon French (frequency #82,765 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,765
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cantonnement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantonnements · cantonnements · French
cantonnements · rank #82,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,765
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitalisant
Nearest frequency peer: capitalisant (+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 « cantonnements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calibration
calibration
17,240 corpus weight
- Campbellton
Campbellton
17,238 corpus weight
- cantonnemen…
cantonnements
17,236 corpus weight
- capitalisant
capitalisant
17,235 corpus weight
- caractériel
caractériel
17,234 corpus weight
- carde
carde
17,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cantonnements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantonnements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔn.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #82,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cantonnements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cantonnements is uncommon French at frequency #82,765 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.tɔn.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cantonnement.".
cantonnements has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cantonnements, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N-N-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cantonnement.
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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