carolingien
\ka.ʁɔ.lɛ̃.ʒjɛ̃\
The verdict
“carolingien” is uncommon French (frequency #65,773 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,773
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Charlemagne, son règne, son époque et à la dynastie qu’il a fondé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carolingien · carolingien · French
carolingien · rank #65,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,773
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnation
Nearest frequency peer: carnation (-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 « carolingien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- cartoons
cartoons
34,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carolingien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carolingien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔ.lɛ̃.ʒjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carolingien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carolingien is uncommon French at frequency #65,773 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ʁɔ.lɛ̃.ʒjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à Charlemagne, son règne, son époque et à la dynastie qu’il a fondé.".
carolingien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 carolingien, spelled C-A-R-O-L-I-N-G-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Charlemagne, son règne, son époque et à la dynastie qu’il a fondé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carolingien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre cité ne figure dans aucune des chartes de l'époque mérovingienne, dans aucune des donations des princes carolingiens.
La période carolingienne, pendant laquelle un nouveau pouvoir impérial prend un temps une tournure césaro-papiste semblable à ce qui s’observe à Constantinople et s’impose sur les évêques, joue un rôle-clé dans l’homogénéisation et la structuration de l’Église latine
Synonyms
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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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