carolines
\ka.ʁɔ.lin\
The verdict
“carolines” is uncommon French (frequency #91,503 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,503
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caroline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carolines · carolines · French
carolines · rank #91,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,503
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carlistes
Nearest frequency peer: carlistes (-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 « carolines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carbonisée
carbonisée
8,501 corpus weight
- cardiopathi…
cardiopathies
8,500 corpus weight
- carlistes
carlistes
8,499 corpus weight
- carolines
carolines
8,498 corpus weight
- Carqueiranne
Carqueiranne
8,497 corpus weight
- carthaginoi…
carthaginoise
8,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carolines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carolines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔ.lin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carolines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carolines is uncommon French at frequency #91,503 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁɔ.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caroline.".
carolines has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is carolines, spelled C-A-R-O-L-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caroline.
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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