caracalla
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
- campan
campan
40,138 corpus weight
- candida
candida
40,137 corpus weight
- caquistes
caquistes
40,136 corpus weight
- caracalla
caracalla
40,135 corpus weight
- caricaturis…
caricaturistes
40,134 corpus weight
- cartographi…
cartographiques
40,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caracalla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caracalla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caracalla » en français
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
- 1Tunique avec capuchon et manches portée en Gaule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caracalla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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