caracole
\ka.ʁa.kɔl\
The verdict
“caracole” is uncommon French (frequency #84,613 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,613
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement en rond, ou en demi-cercle, qu’un cavalier fait exécuter à sa monture, en changeant quelquefois de main.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracole · caracole · French
caracole · rank #84,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,613
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capron
Nearest frequency peer: capron (-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 « caracole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canuts
canuts
15,391 corpus weight
- canyoning
canyoning
15,390 corpus weight
- capron
capron
15,389 corpus weight
- caracole
caracole
15,388 corpus weight
- caramélisées
caramélisées
15,387 corpus weight
- casemate
casemate
15,385 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caracole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caracole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caracole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caracole is uncommon French at frequency #84,613 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caracole, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caracole, spelled C-A-R-A-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Mouvement en rond, ou en demi-cercle, qu’un cavalier fait exécuter à sa monture, en changeant quelquefois de main.
- 2Mouvement de tous les cavaliers d’un même escadron, quand il tourne en même temps sur sa droite ou sur sa gauche.
- 3Escargot.
- 4Instrument destiné à récupérer dans un puits de forage une rallonge de tige qui se serait cassée, il s'agit d'un outil en forme de queue de cochon propre à bloquer la pièce cassée et à la remonter à la surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caracole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire une caracole.
— L’avion revient vers nous, plane un moment sur nos têtes, glisse, remonte et, dans une dernière caracole, pique vers son hangar.
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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