carnassière
\kaʁ.na.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“carnassière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit sac où l’on met le petit gibier qu’on a tué à la chasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carnassiere · carnassière · French
carnassière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carnassière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.na.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carnassière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carnassière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.na.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for carnassière in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is carnassière, spelled C-A-R-N-A-S-S-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Petit sac où l’on met le petit gibier qu’on a tué à la chasse.
- 2Dernière prémolaire supérieure et première molaire inférieure des carnivores.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carnassière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il profita d'un jour chaud qui devait confiner Valentine chez elle, et, s'étant muni d'une carnassière bien remplie de gibier [..] il partit ainsi équipé en chasseur villageois..
Le lendemain devait avoir lieu, comme je l’ai dit, l’ouverture de la chasse. Pierre et Henri furent prêts avant tout le monde ; c’était leur début ; ils avaient leurs fusils en bandoulière, leur carnassière passée sur l’épaule.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.