La Canée
\la ka.ne\
The verdict
“La Canée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville portuaire de l’île de Crète, dont elle est deuxième plus grande ville. Elle est située à l’Ouest de l’île, dans une baie sur sa façade égéenne, à l’emplacement de l’ancienne cité minoenne de ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-la-canee · La Canée · French
La Canée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | La Canée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la ka.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
La Canée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la ka.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for La Canée, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is La Canée, spelled L-A- -C-A-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ville portuaire de l’île de Crète, dont elle est deuxième plus grande ville. Elle est située à l’Ouest de l’île, dans une baie sur sa façade égéenne, à l’emplacement de l’ancienne cité minoenne de Cydon, au nord des montagnes Blanches.
- 2Un dème de Crète.
- 3Jusqu’en 2011, un nome de Crète.
- 4Depuis 2011, celui des districts régionaux de Crète qui couvre le quart ouest de l’île.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.