carnation
\kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“carnation” is uncommon French (frequency #65,772 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,772
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teint d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carnation · carnation · French
carnation · rank #65,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,772
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carlingue
Nearest frequency peer: carlingue (-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 « carnation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cardi
cardi
34,232 corpus weight
- Carinthie
Carinthie
34,231 corpus weight
- carlingue
carlingue
34,230 corpus weight
- carnation
carnation
34,229 corpus weight
- carolingien
carolingien
34,228 corpus weight
- carron
carron
34,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carnation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carnation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carnation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carnation is uncommon French at frequency #65,772 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for carnation in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 carnation, spelled C-A-R-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Teint d’une personne.
- 2Représentation, rendu du coloris de la chair.
- 3Voir de carnation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carnation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais la captivante rondeur des formes, […], la transparence d’une carnation délicate, […], imprimaient à cette beauté vigoureuse la suavité féminine, la modestie enchanteresse que nous demandons à ces anges de paix et d’amour.
— La jeune fille est charmante avec ses cheveux noirs, ses yeux profonds et sa carnation éblouissante de fraîcheur.
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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