carat
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,945
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
carat is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \ka.ʁa\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carat is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,945 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for carat in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carat, spelled C-A-R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #51,945 in French
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