carapaces
\ka.ʁa.pas\
The verdict
“carapaces” is uncommon French (frequency #68,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,883
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carapace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carapaces · carapaces · French
carapaces · rank #68,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,883
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cardona
Nearest frequency peer: Cardona (+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 « carapaces »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canonnade
canonnade
31,121 corpus weight
- capharnaüm
capharnaüm
31,120 corpus weight
- carapaces
carapaces
31,118 corpus weight
- Cardona
Cardona
31,117 corpus weight
- carmina
carmina
31,116 corpus weight
- Carolus
Carolus
31,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carapaces » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carapaces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.pas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carapaces » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carapaces is uncommon French at frequency #68,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.pas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de carapace.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carapaces, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is carapaces, spelled C-A-R-A-P-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carapace.
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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