canule
\ka.nyl\
The verdict
“canule” is uncommon French (frequency #72,991 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,991
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit tuyau arrondi et percé d’un ou de plusieurs trous à l’une de ses extrémités et que l’on adapte au bout d’une seringue ou d’un tube à injection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canule · canule · French
canule · rank #72,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,991
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Canelle
Nearest frequency peer: Canelle (-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 « canule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cadrent
cadrent
27,013 corpus weight
- calices
calices
27,012 corpus weight
- Canelle
Canelle
27,011 corpus weight
- canule
canule
27,010 corpus weight
- carbonée
carbonée
27,009 corpus weight
- cardinales
cardinales
27,008 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nyl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canule is uncommon French at frequency #72,991 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.nyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for canule, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is canule, spelled C-A-N-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit tuyau arrondi et percé d’un ou de plusieurs trous à l’une de ses extrémités et que l’on adapte au bout d’une seringue ou d’un tube à injection.
- 2Certains instruments allongés, cylindriques, creux, faits de différentes matières, qui servent à injecter, à tenir ouvertes des plaies profondes.
- 3Sorte de tuyau ou robinet de bois qu’on met à un tonneau en perce.
This word in other languages
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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