caribous
\ka.ʁi.bu\
The verdict
“caribous” is uncommon French (frequency #50,706 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,706
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caribou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caribous · caribous · French
caribous · rank #50,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,706
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cardan
Nearest frequency peer: cardan (-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 « caribous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cappadoce
Cappadoce
49,298 corpus weight
- captiver
captiver
49,297 corpus weight
- cardan
cardan
49,296 corpus weight
- caribous
caribous
49,295 corpus weight
- Castex
Castex
49,294 corpus weight
- caïman
caïman
49,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caribous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caribous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi.bu\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caribous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caribous is uncommon French at frequency #50,706 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁi.bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caribou.".
caribous has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caribous, spelled C-A-R-I-B-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caribou.
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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