caramels
\ka.ʁa.mɛl\
The verdict
“caramels” is uncommon French (frequency #65,006 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,006
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caramel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caramels · caramels · French
caramels · rank #65,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,006
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capétiens
Nearest frequency peer: capétiens (-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 « caramels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camée
camée
34,998 corpus weight
- capétiens
capétiens
34,996 corpus weight
- caramels
caramels
34,995 corpus weight
- cassa
cassa
34,993 corpus weight
- caséine
caséine
34,992 corpus weight
- Cauvin
Cauvin
34,991 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caramels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caramels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caramels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caramels is uncommon French at frequency #65,006 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.mɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caramel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caramels, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is caramels, spelled C-A-R-A-M-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caramel.
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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