carat
\ka.ʁa\
The verdict
“carat” is uncommon French (frequency #51,945 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,945
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de masse pour la pesée des diamants et des pierres précieuses, brutes ou taillées, valant exactement 0,2 gramme depuis sa métrification en 1907. Symbole : ct.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carat · carat · French
carat · rank #51,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,945
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH captivante
Nearest frequency peer: captivante (-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 « carat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Camillo
Camillo
48,059 corpus weight
- canulars
canulars
48,058 corpus weight
- captivante
captivante
48,057 corpus weight
- carat
carat
48,056 corpus weight
- carcinome
carcinome
48,055 corpus weight
- Caribbean
Caribbean
48,054 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carat is uncommon French at frequency #51,945 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for carat in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 carat, spelled C-A-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de masse pour la pesée des diamants et des pierres précieuses, brutes ou taillées, valant exactement 0,2 gramme depuis sa métrification en 1907. Symbole : ct.
- 2Vingt-quatrième partie d’or fin contenue dans un lingot d’or, elle-même subdivisée autrefois en 32 grains de fin. Symbole : ct, K ou k.
- 3Petits diamants qui se vendent au masse et qui ne dépassent guère la masse d'un carat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CARAT ou Karat, en allemand, en suédois et en danois karat, en hollandais karaat, en flamand karaet, en anglais carat, carack, caract, en espagnol et en portugais quilate, en italien carato. Ce mot, qui dérive du kération des anciens Grecs ou du kirat des Arabes, a deux acceptions différentes, savoir : […] 2° Le carat est aussi un poids réel dont on se se…
Une pierre précieuse de cinq carats.
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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