caricaturer
\ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe\
The verdict
“caricaturer” is uncommon French (frequency #59,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,143
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représenter de façon caricaturale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caricaturer · caricaturer · French
caricaturer · rank #59,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,143
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carambolage
Nearest frequency peer: carambolage (-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 « caricaturer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carambar
carambar
40,860 corpus weight
- carambolage
carambolage
40,859 corpus weight
- caricaturer
caricaturer
40,858 corpus weight
- carolingiens
carolingiens
40,857 corpus weight
- Carpates
Carpates
40,856 corpus weight
- carpet
carpet
40,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caricaturer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caricaturer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caricaturer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caricaturer is uncommon French at frequency #59,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for caricaturer in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is caricaturer, spelled C-A-R-I-C-A-T-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Représenter de façon caricaturale.
- 2Trop simplifier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caricaturer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Punch caricaturait Disraëli, le représentant tantôt en feu follet que poursuivaient en vain des fermiers déçus ; tantôt en caméléon que John Bull, […], regardait avec curiosité ; tantôt en séducteur de village auquel un père sévère, montrant sa fille Agriculture, demande : « Quelles sont vos intentions? » — (André Maurois, La Vie de Disraëli, 1927)
Bien entendu à les ramasser […] en si peu de mots, on court le risque de les caricaturer par excès de simplification.
This word in other languages
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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