carillon
French, noun/ka.ʁi.jɔ̃/
carillon is spelled C-A-R-I-L-L-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carillon is a French masculine noun meaning “carillon (set of bells, often in a bell tower)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réunion de cloches accordées à différents tons”.
What does carillon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecarillon (set of bells, often in a bell tower)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Réunion de cloches accordées à différents tons. 2. Air qu’on exécute sur ces cloches. 3. Battement de cloches à coups précipités, avec une sorte de mesure et d’accord. 4. Bruit fait par les jets d'un liquide tombant dans un récipient métallique.
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 carillon
- carillons plural
- carrillon alternative archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carillon?
- /ka.ʁi.jɔ̃/
- \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\
- [ka.ʁi.jɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carillon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carillon in French?
carillon appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).