carnassier
\kaʁ.na.sje\
The verdict
“carnassier” is uncommon French (frequency #69,659 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,659
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se nourrit de chair crue et qui en est fort avide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carnassier · carnassier · French
carnassier · rank #69,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,659
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carsten
Nearest frequency peer: Carsten (+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 « carnassier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Capbreton
Capbreton
30,345 corpus weight
- carburateurs
carburateurs
30,344 corpus weight
- carnassier
carnassier
30,342 corpus weight
- Carsten
Carsten
30,341 corpus weight
- cartonnent
cartonnent
30,340 corpus weight
- Castonguay
Castonguay
30,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carnassier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carnassier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaʁ.na.sje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carnassier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carnassier is uncommon French at frequency #69,659 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kaʁ.na.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carnassier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is carnassier, spelled C-A-R-N-A-S-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui se nourrit de chair crue et qui en est fort avide.
- 2Bestial, grossier, violent, brutal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carnassier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les corbeaux passent, passent sans cesse, passent, en files interminables et noires, se hâtant vers on ne sait quelles carnassières ripailles, et le vent apporte le tintement triste des clochettes pendues au cou des vaches qui paissent, égaillées, l’herbe avare de la lande…
Comme il s’en revenait du champ le 13 septembre 1759, Joseph Nevoret est éventré et mangé par un loup carnassier à Viriat (Ain) : on était « environ le soleil couchant ».
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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