caudal
\ko.dal\
The verdict
“caudal” is uncommon French (frequency #96,734 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,734
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la queue, au bas ou à l'arrière du corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caudal · caudal · French
caudal · rank #96,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,734
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cathala
Nearest frequency peer: Cathala (-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 « caudal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cartonnés
cartonnés
3,270 corpus weight
- carénée
carénée
3,269 corpus weight
- Cathala
Cathala
3,268 corpus weight
- caudal
caudal
3,267 corpus weight
- cavitation
cavitation
3,266 corpus weight
- certificate…
certificateur
3,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caudal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caudal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.dal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caudal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caudal is uncommon French at frequency #96,734 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ko.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport à la queue, au bas ou à l'arrière du corps.".
Zero misspellings are on record for caudal in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caudal, spelled C-A-U-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à la queue, au bas ou à l'arrière du corps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caudal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unis comme les « dix doigts de la main ». Et par la queue. Tous attachés les uns aux autres par un caprice de la nature. Celle-ce avait emmêlé, enchevêtré, entortillé leurs appendices caudaux au point de former un nœud inextricable que rien ni personne n’aurait pu débrouiller.
Ce qui est caudal est inférieur chez les bipèdes et postérieur chez les quadrupèdes.
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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