carmin
\kaʁ.mɛ̃\
The verdict
“carmin” is uncommon French (frequency #54,456 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,456
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rouge profond, très légèrement violacé. #960018
Corpus desk
Index FR-carmin · carmin · French
carmin · rank #54,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,456
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carta
Nearest frequency peer: carta (+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 « carmin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calmera
calmera
45,549 corpus weight
- calques
calques
45,548 corpus weight
- capitan
capitan
45,547 corpus weight
- carmin
carmin
45,545 corpus weight
- carta
carta
45,544 corpus weight
- Castellet
Castellet
45,542 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carmin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carmin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaʁ.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carmin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carmin is uncommon French at frequency #54,456 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kaʁ.mɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rouge profond, très légèrement violacé. #960018".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carmin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is carmin, spelled C-A-R-M-I-N.
Definition
- 1Rouge profond, très légèrement violacé. #960018
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carmin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le colibri à gorge carmin.
Cette tache paraît plus sombre parce que j’ai forcé sur le rouge carmin alors que dans celle-ci il y a plus de vermillon avec une pointe de vert anglais et un soupçon de noir…
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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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