cantonniers
\kɑ̃.tɔ.nje\
The verdict
“cantonniers” is uncommon French (frequency #72,153 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,153
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cantonnier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantonniers · cantonniers · French
cantonniers · rank #72,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,153
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caméo
Nearest frequency peer: caméo (-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 « cantonniers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Callaghan
Callaghan
27,851 corpus weight
- caméléons
caméléons
27,850 corpus weight
- caméo
caméo
27,849 corpus weight
- cantonniers
cantonniers
27,848 corpus weight
- capacity
capacity
27,846 corpus weight
- Carentan
Carentan
27,845 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cantonniers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantonniers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cantonniers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cantonniers is uncommon French at frequency #72,153 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.tɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cantonnier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cantonniers, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cantonniers, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N-N-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cantonnier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cantonniers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pompiers travaillaient à décochonner la cour, à deux lances, avec tous les cantonniers du Ve, et une file de fiacres à bondon attendaient contre le trottoir.
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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