career
\kə.ˈɹɪɹ\
The verdict
“career” is uncommon French (frequency #76,402 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,402
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-career · career · French
career · rank #76,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,402
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitalism
Nearest frequency peer: capitalism (-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 « career »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cancérologue
cancérologue
23,603 corpus weight
- canna
canna
23,601 corpus weight
- capitalism
capitalism
23,600 corpus weight
- career
career
23,599 corpus weight
- caritatifs
caritatifs
23,598 corpus weight
- casale
casale
23,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « career » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | career |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kə.ˈɹɪɹ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « career » en français
Rare enough to double-check
career is uncommon French at frequency #76,402 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kə.ˈɹɪɹ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Carrière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for career in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is career, spelled C-A-R-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1Carrière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how career appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In recent years, while IceT has steered his career away from recorded music, he has continued to tout his streetcred.
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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