carabinier
\ka.ʁa.bi.nje\
The verdict
“carabinier” is uncommon French (frequency #90,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,510
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat de cavalerie armé d’une carabine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carabinier · carabinier · French
carabinier · rank #90,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,510
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitalisés
Nearest frequency peer: capitalisés (-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 « carabinier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- campant
campant
9,495 corpus weight
- Canidé
Canidé
9,494 corpus weight
- cantonnier
cantonnier
9,493 corpus weight
- capitalisés
capitalisés
9,492 corpus weight
- carabinier
carabinier
9,491 corpus weight
- carbet
carbet
9,489 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carabinier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carabinier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.bi.nje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carabinier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carabinier is uncommon French at frequency #90,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.bi.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for carabinier in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 carabinier, spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Soldat de cavalerie armé d’une carabine.
- 2Sorte de gendarme.
- 3Garde du palais et protecteur de la famille du prince suzerain de Monaco.
- 4Pratiquant du tir sportif à la carabine.
- 5Désignation du grade d’un membre d’un régiment de carabiniers détenant le grade de soldat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carabinier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne s’est pas occupé, il est vrai, de créer de la cavalerie, mais on a organisé une nuée de carabiniers, qui, à quelques cents pas, choisissent leur homme, et le frappent sur le bouton qu’ils ont désigné.
Étant donné la nature ambivalente du Corps des carabiniers du Chili (force de police et force constituant virtuellement une quatrième Arme), c’est par un double canal que se sont développées ses relations avec les États-Unis.
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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