Carioca
\ka.ʁjɔ.ka\
The verdict
“Carioca” is uncommon French (frequency #60,621 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,621
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Habitant de Rio de Janeiro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carioca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁjɔ.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Carioca” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Carioca is uncommon French at frequency #60,621 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁjɔ.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de Rio de Janeiro.".
Carioca doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Carioca, spelled C-A-R-I-O-C-A.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Rio de Janeiro.
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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Using “Carioca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-I-O-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ʁjɔ.ka\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.