caracal
\ka.ʁa.kal\
The verdict
“caracal” is uncommon French (frequency #92,526 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,526
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de félin africain et asiatique, semblable au lynx, à oreilles très pointues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracal · caracal · French
caracal · rank #92,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,526
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH captages
Nearest frequency peer: captages (-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 « caracal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camées
camées
7,479 corpus weight
- canée
canée
7,478 corpus weight
- capricieuses
capricieuses
7,477 corpus weight
- captages
captages
7,476 corpus weight
- caracal
caracal
7,475 corpus weight
- careful
careful
7,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caracal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caracal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.kal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caracal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caracal is uncommon French at frequency #92,526 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de félin africain et asiatique, semblable au lynx, à oreilles très pointues.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caracal in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is caracal, spelled C-A-R-A-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Espèce de félin africain et asiatique, semblable au lynx, à oreilles très pointues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caracal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le caracal a le corps plus délié que les lynx.
Ressemblant au lynx, le caracal est un grand chat au pelage marron clair que l’on reconnaît à ses grandes oreilles terminées par une longue touffe de poils noirs.
Synonyms
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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