carabin

\ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\

/\ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“carabin” is uncommon French (frequency #99,964 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,964
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat de cavalerie qui portait une carabine et que l’on employait d’ordinaire dans les reconnaissances, les escarmouches.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carabin · carabin · French

carabin · rank #99,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,964
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH capuchons

Nearest frequency peer: capuchons (-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 « carabin »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carabin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for carabin
PropertyValue
Headwordcarabin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#99,964
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « carabin » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).carabintombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « capuchons » (#99,963), « carambars » (#99,965), « capitulations » (#99,962). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « carabin » est au #99,964. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

carabin is uncommon French at frequency #99,964 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for carabin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is carabin, spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Soldat de cavalerie qui portait une carabine et que l’on employait d’ordinaire dans les reconnaissances, les escarmouches.
  2. 2
    Étudiant en médecine.
  3. 3
    Étudiant en médecine.
  4. 4
    Chirurgien débutant qui ne restait que quelque temps dans le même hôpital.
  5. 5
    Celui qui se contente de hasarder quelque chose au jeu et qui se retire ensuite, qu’il ait perdu ou gagné.
  6. 6
    Synonyme de sarrasin, blé noir.
  7. 7
    Petite pièce de cuir en forme de losange qui réalise la jonction entre les doigts d’un gant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how carabin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il vit ledit sʳ sortir dudit Reims par la porte Mars son carrosse attelé de deux chevaux sept ou huit cavaliers l’attendaient, puis d’autres survinrent. Ils étaient en tout 25 environ, carabins du régiment de St-Estienne ; […].
  2. – Ce tonnerre de carabin-là mérite deux fois là mort !

This word in other languages

medical student(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carabin"?
"carabin" is spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\.
What does "carabin" mean?
As a noun, "carabin" means: Soldat de cavalerie qui portait une carabine et que l’on employait d’ordinaire dans les reconnaissances, les escarmouches.
How do you pronounce "carabin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carabin" is \ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carabin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list