caracalla

noun

The verdict

“caracalla” is uncommon French (frequency #59,866 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,866
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tunique avec capuchon et manches portée en Gaule.

Corpus desk

Index FR-caracalla · caracalla · French

caracalla · rank #59,866 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,866
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH caquistes

Nearest frequency peer: caquistes (-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 « caracalla »

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 « caracalla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for caracalla
PropertyValue
Headwordcaracalla
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#59,866
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « caracalla » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).caracallatombe 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: « caquistes » (#59,865), « caricaturistes » (#59,867), « candida » (#59,864). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « caracalla » est au #59,866. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

caracalla is uncommon French at frequency #59,866 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tunique avec capuchon et manches portée en Gaule.".

caracalla has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caracalla, spelled C-A-R-A-C-A-L-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tunique avec capuchon et manches portée en Gaule.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Aurelius Antoninus Bassianus Caracalla, Severi filius, Lugduni genitus, imperavit solus annos sex. Hic Bassianus ex avi materni nomine dictus est. At cum e Gallia vestem plurimam devexisset talaresque caracallas fecisset coegissetque plebem ad se salutandum indutam talibus introire, de nomine huiusce vestis Caracalla cognominatus est.

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 "caracalla"?
"caracalla" is spelled C-A-R-A-C-A-L-L-A.
What does "caracalla" mean?
As a noun, "caracalla" means: Tunique avec capuchon et manches portée en Gaule.
What language does "caracalla" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list