carcasse
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,661
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
carcasse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ossements du corps d’un animal, lorsqu’il n’y a plus guère de chair et qu’ils tiennent encore ensemble. Pronounced \kaʁ.kas\. Often confused with crasse and caresse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carcasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.kas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carcasse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.kas\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,661 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for carcasse, with forms such as "acrcasse", "cacrasse", and "caracsse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "crasse", "caresse", "Caucase", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 carcasse, spelled C-A-R-C-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ossements du corps d’un animal, lorsqu’il n’y a plus guère de chair et qu’ils tiennent encore ensemble.
- 2Corps d’un défunt.
- 3La chair et les os d'un animal abattu, dépouillé et vidé , tel qu'il sort de l'abattoir et destiné à la boucherie.
- 4Ce qui reste du corps d’une volaille lorsqu’on en a ôté les cuisses et les ailes.
- 5Personne ou animal d’une extrême maigreur.
- 6Arbre dépouillé de ses feuilles.
- 7Navire dont il n’y a encore que la charpente de faite.
- 8Vieux navire en démolition ou bâtiment qui a péri à la côte et que la mer a dépecé en partie.
- 9Véhicule démantelé ou partiellement détruit.
- 10Plan, armature ou charpente d’une chose.
- 11Plan, armature ou charpente d’une chose.
- 12Plan, armature ou charpente d’une chose.
- 13Corps humain.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrcasse,cacrasse,caracsse,carcase,carcases,carccasse,carcsase,carrcasse,ccarcasse,cracasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carcasse
Misspelling Variants of "carcasse"
Frequency rank: #20,661 in French
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Nearby French words
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