carabins
\ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“carabins” is uncommon French (frequency #75,478 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,478
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carabin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carabins · carabins · French
carabins · rank #75,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,478
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitalise
Nearest frequency peer: capitalise (-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 « carabins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canes
canes
24,526 corpus weight
- canonnière
canonnière
24,525 corpus weight
- capitalise
capitalise
24,524 corpus weight
- carabins
carabins
24,523 corpus weight
- casanier
casanier
24,521 corpus weight
- casserait
casserait
24,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carabins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carabins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carabins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carabins is uncommon French at frequency #75,478 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de carabin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carabins in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is carabins, spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carabin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carabins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils se diraient guéris afin de sortir au plus vite, d’échapper à cette obsession, qu’augmente encore la présence des carabins, les internes et les externes, en tablier blanc.
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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