Carioca
\ka.ʁjɔ.ka\
The verdict
“Carioca” is uncommon French (frequency #60,621 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,621
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Rio de Janeiro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carioca · Carioca · French
Carioca · rank #60,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,621
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capello
Nearest frequency peer: capello (-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 « Carioca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camorra
camorra
39,383 corpus weight
- canis
canis
39,382 corpus weight
- capello
capello
39,381 corpus weight
- Carioca
Carioca
39,380 corpus weight
- carrick
carrick
39,379 corpus weight
- castilla
castilla
39,378 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Carioca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Carioca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Carioca is uncommon French at frequency #60,621 among 8,609 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Carioca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui-ci n’a encore aucune idée de ce qu’on lui demandera, il sait seulement qu’il court un risque à cause d’Augusta, de ses bras nus, de la jolie robe en surah orange qui découvre les épaules et la gorge, de la musicalité des voix brésiliennes autour de lui : la Bahianaise, le maître d’hôtel, un Carioca, le sommelier, un Pauliste.
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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