Carentan
\ka.ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“Carentan” is uncommon French (frequency #72,156 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,156
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Manche intégrée dans la commune de Carentan les Marais en janvier 2016.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carentan · Carentan · French
Carentan · rank #72,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,156
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capacity
Nearest frequency peer: capacity (-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 « Carentan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caméo
caméo
27,849 corpus weight
- cantonniers
cantonniers
27,848 corpus weight
- capacity
capacity
27,846 corpus weight
- Carentan
Carentan
27,845 corpus weight
- Carlsbad
Carlsbad
27,844 corpus weight
- cassante
cassante
27,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Carentan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carentan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Carentan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Carentan is uncommon French at frequency #72,156 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Manche intégrée dans la commune de Carentan les Marais en janvier 2016.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Carentan, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Carentan, spelled C-A-R-E-N-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Manche intégrée dans la commune de Carentan les Marais en janvier 2016.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Carentan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En temps ordinaire, ces deux événements eussent fait à Carentan le même effet que produit à Paris un relâche à tous les théâtres.
À proximité des marais de Gorges était prévu le cisaillement en saut-de-mouton de la ligne à voie unique Carentan/Carteret exploitée sur tout son parcours depuis l’été 1894 par la Compagnie de l’Ouest — (Michel Harouy, Un petit train de la Manche: Granville, Coutances, Lessay, Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Montebourg , 1907-1932, Éditions Cheminements, 2006, note p…
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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