Carmaux
\kaʁ.mo\
The verdict
“Carmaux” is uncommon French (frequency #57,811 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,811
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Tarn.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carmaux · Carmaux · French
Carmaux · rank #57,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,811
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capra
Nearest frequency peer: capra (-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 « Carmaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canonnier
canonnier
42,193 corpus weight
- capoeira
capoeira
42,192 corpus weight
- capra
capra
42,191 corpus weight
- Carmaux
Carmaux
42,190 corpus weight
- cassera
cassera
42,189 corpus weight
- caster
caster
42,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Carmaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carmaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.mo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Carmaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Carmaux is uncommon French at frequency #57,811 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kaʁ.mo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Tarn.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Carmaux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Carmaux, spelled C-A-R-M-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Tarn.
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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