carillons
\ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“carillons” is uncommon French (frequency #71,334 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,334
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carillons · carillons · French
carillons · rank #71,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,334
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cantonnent
Nearest frequency peer: cantonnent (-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 « carillons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- candélabres
candélabres
28,671 corpus weight
- cannelures
cannelures
28,670 corpus weight
- cantonnent
cantonnent
28,668 corpus weight
- carillons
carillons
28,667 corpus weight
- Carolo
Carolo
28,664 corpus weight
- carquois
carquois
28,663 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carillons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carillons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carillons is uncommon French at frequency #71,334 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁi.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de carillon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carillons, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is carillons, spelled C-A-R-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce carillon est le plus parfait qui existe ; aussi tous les carillons de Flandre ont-ils, depuis long-tems, reconnu sa suprématie ; mais comme il est situé dans le centre des cafés et des estaminets, et qu’il ne décesse de faire entendre sa vigoureuse harmonie, les étrangers, qui ne peuvent le souffrir, jurent d’une façon bien diabolique contre tous les b…
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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