carbet
\kaʁ.bɛ\
The verdict
“carbet” is uncommon French (frequency #90,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,512
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande case faite de branches et de feuillage, typique de certaines régions d’Amérique du Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carbet · carbet · French
carbet · rank #90,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,512
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carabinier
Nearest frequency peer: carabinier (-2 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 « carbet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cantonnier
cantonnier
9,493 corpus weight
- capitalisés
capitalisés
9,492 corpus weight
- carabinier
carabinier
9,491 corpus weight
- carbet
carbet
9,489 corpus weight
- Cardif
Cardif
9,487 corpus weight
- cardo
cardo
9,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carbet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carbet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carbet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carbet is uncommon French at frequency #90,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for carbet in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is carbet, spelled C-A-R-B-E-T.
Definition
- 1Grande case faite de branches et de feuillage, typique de certaines régions d’Amérique du Sud.
- 2Toiture pour abriter des embarcations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carbet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un carbet dans la forêt vierge. Une femme noire, qui paraît avoir un grand âge, broie du manioc.
Je ne dis rien de la baraque… J’en ai vu des centaines, du même genre, quand ton père était juge à La Guadeloupe. C’est un carbet, sans les margouillats.
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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