canyoning
\ka.ɲɔ.niŋ\
The verdict
“canyoning” is uncommon French (frequency #84,611 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,611
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de canyonisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canyoning · canyoning · French
canyoning · rank #84,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,611
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canuts
Nearest frequency peer: canuts (-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 « canyoning »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- candélabre
candélabre
15,393 corpus weight
- Canuel
Canuel
15,392 corpus weight
- canuts
canuts
15,391 corpus weight
- canyoning
canyoning
15,390 corpus weight
- capron
capron
15,389 corpus weight
- caracole
caracole
15,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « canyoning » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canyoning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ɲɔ.niŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « canyoning » en français
Rare enough to double-check
canyoning is uncommon French at frequency #84,611 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ɲɔ.niŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de canyonisme.".
canyoning has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is canyoning, spelled C-A-N-Y-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Variante de canyonisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how canyoning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faut-il craindre une interdiction de la plongée sous-marine en cœur de parc, comme ce fut le cas pour le canyoning, suite au conflit environnemental entourant cette pratique ?
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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