carnage
French, noun/kaʁ.naʒ/
carnage is spelled C-A-R-N-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carnage is a French masculine noun meaning “carnage (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acte de tuer violemment ou en grand nombre”.
What does carnage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecarnage (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acte de tuer violemment ou en grand nombre 2. Chair d’autres animaux dont se nourrissent les bêtes sauvages. 3. Puanteur. 4. Catastrophe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of carnage
- carnages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carnage?
- /kaʁ.naʒ/
- \kaʁ.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carnage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carnage in French?
carnage appears 3.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).