Carlsbad
The verdict
“Carlsbad” is uncommon French (frequency #72,157 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,157
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville thermale de Bohême.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carlsbad · Carlsbad · French
Carlsbad · rank #72,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carentan
Nearest frequency peer: Carentan (-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 « Carlsbad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cantonniers
cantonniers
27,848 corpus weight
- capacity
capacity
27,846 corpus weight
- Carentan
Carentan
27,845 corpus weight
- Carlsbad
Carlsbad
27,844 corpus weight
- cassante
cassante
27,842 corpus weight
- caucasienne
caucasienne
27,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Carlsbad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carlsbad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Carlsbad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Carlsbad is uncommon French at frequency #72,157 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville thermale de Bohême.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Carlsbad in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Carlsbad, spelled C-A-R-L-S-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1Ville thermale de Bohême.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Carlsbad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Vous connaissez Carlsbad ? C’est là qu’il y a encore des juifs en costume de juifs, avec la houppelande raide de crasse, les beaux cheveux de christ annelés, et un petit pot de chambre sur la tête. Il y a ces Autrichiens qui crachent en passant à côté d’eux…
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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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