cariste
\ka.ʁist\
The verdict
“cariste” is uncommon French (frequency #78,232 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,232
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne utilisant des outils de manutention comme un chariot élévateur, un transpalette électrique ou tout autre engin, que ces engins soient ou non à personne portée ou accompagnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cariste · cariste · French
cariste · rank #78,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,232
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carex
Nearest frequency peer: carex (-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 « cariste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canut
canut
21,773 corpus weight
- cardiopathie
cardiopathie
21,771 corpus weight
- carex
carex
21,770 corpus weight
- cariste
cariste
21,769 corpus weight
- caso
caso
21,767 corpus weight
- Castelbajac
Castelbajac
21,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cariste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cariste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cariste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cariste is uncommon French at frequency #78,232 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne utilisant des outils de manutention comme un chariot élévateur, un transpalette électrique ou tout autre engin, que ces engins soient ou non à personne portée ou accompagnée.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cariste, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cariste, spelled C-A-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne utilisant des outils de manutention comme un chariot élévateur, un transpalette électrique ou tout autre engin, que ces engins soient ou non à personne portée ou accompagnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cariste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agit tout bonnement d’un cariste, affecté au port-franc, là où, sous contrôle de la douane, sont entreposées les marchandises en transit.
Les choses se sont tassées, il vient, il fait son travail, le reste ne le concerne pas, il attend seulement le tribunal avec impatience. Il n’a pas demandé de dommages et intérêts. C’est également le cas de cette cariste d’origine bosniaque, victime des mêmes harceleurs à la mécanique, qui est venue voir Florence spontanément.
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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