carmélite
\kaʁ.me.lit\
The verdict
“carmélite” is uncommon French (frequency #86,520 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,520
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à l’ordre du Carmel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carmelite · carmélite · French
carmélite · rank #86,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,520
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caribéen
Nearest frequency peer: caribéen (-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 « carmélite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cardboard
cardboard
13,484 corpus weight
- cardiomyopa…
cardiomyopathie
13,483 corpus weight
- caribéen
caribéen
13,482 corpus weight
- carmélite
carmélite
13,481 corpus weight
- carnés
carnés
13,480 corpus weight
- carpelles
carpelles
13,479 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carmélite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carmélite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaʁ.me.lit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carmélite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carmélite is uncommon French at frequency #86,520 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kaʁ.me.lit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient à l’ordre du Carmel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carmélite in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 carmélite, spelled C-A-R-M-É-L-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’ordre du Carmel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carmélite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une religieuse carmélite.
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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