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carcassonnais

French, adjective

carcassonnais is spelled C-A-R-C-A-S-S-O-N-N-A-I-S (13 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carcassonnais is a French adjective meaning “of, from or relating to the city of Carcassonne, capital of Aude department, Occitania, France” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Carcassonnais is a different word: “native or inhabitant of the city of Carcassonne, the capital of Aude…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à Carcassonne, commune française située dans le département de l’Aude, et à ses habitants”.

What does carcassonnais mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    of, from or relating to the city of Carcassonne, capital of Aude department, Occitania, France

noun

as Carcassonnais
  1. 1

    masculinenative or inhabitant of the city of Carcassonne, the capital of Aude department, Occitania, France (usually male)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Habitant de Carcassonne, commune française située dans le département de l’Aude.

adjective: 1. Relatif à Carcassonne, commune française située dans le département de l’Aude, et à ses habitants.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of carcassonnais

  • carcassonnaise feminine
  • carcassonnaises feminine plural
  • Carcassonnaise feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is carcassonnais in French?

carcassonnais appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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