carlingue
\kaʁ.lɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“carlingue” is uncommon French (frequency #65,771 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,771
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de quille intérieure qui s'étend presque tout le long du navire, au-dessus de la quille proprement dite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carlingue · carlingue · French
carlingue · rank #65,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,771
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carinthie
Nearest frequency peer: Carinthie (-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 « carlingue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carbonisés
carbonisés
34,233 corpus weight
- cardi
cardi
34,232 corpus weight
- Carinthie
Carinthie
34,231 corpus weight
- carlingue
carlingue
34,230 corpus weight
- carnation
carnation
34,229 corpus weight
- carolingien
carolingien
34,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carlingue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carlingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.lɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carlingue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carlingue is uncommon French at frequency #65,771 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.lɛ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
carlingue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is carlingue, spelled C-A-R-L-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de quille intérieure qui s'étend presque tout le long du navire, au-dessus de la quille proprement dite.
- 2Assemblage de charpente qui reçoit le pied d’un bas-mât.
- 3Nacelle, cellule, d’un avion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carlingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Essayez de vous mettre au milieu de la carlingue, avait conseillé Ferdinand Graux.
...mais uniquement avec deux pneus dans la carlingue, pour nous servir de bouées, en cas de besoin.
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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