carotte
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,533
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
carotte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante potagère du genre Daucus de la famille des Apiaceae, (Apiacées) — anciennement Ombellifères —, à racine pivotante et charnue, douce, sucrée, comestible. Pronounced \ka.ʁɔt\. Often confused with carte and cotte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carotte is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,533 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for carotte, with forms such as "acrotte", "caortte", and "carote". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "carte", "cotte", "croûte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carotte, spelled C-A-R-O-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante potagère du genre Daucus de la famille des Apiaceae, (Apiacées) — anciennement Ombellifères —, à racine pivotante et charnue, douce, sucrée, comestible.
- 2Légume racine constitué de la racine de Daucus carota en particulier la sous espèce sativus qui se mange crue ou cuite.
- 3Nom donné à différentes Apiaceae du genre Daucus (autres que Daucus carotta), et des genres Amni, Athamantha, Cicuta, etc. dont certaines peuvent être toxiques.
- 4Tour par lequel on subtilise de l’argent à quelqu’un.
- 5Appât, par analogie avec ce que l’on montre à l’âne pour le faire avancer.
- 6Prélèvement de forme cylindrique.
- 7Trou formé par ce prélèvement.
- 8Objet ayant la forme allongée d’une carotte.
- 9Saxophone soprano, qui peut ne pas être coudé.
- 10Paquet de tabac à priser ou à chiquer ayant une forme biconique.
- 11Enseigne rouge de forme fuselée signalant un bureau de tabac. Cette enseigne rappelle la forme des paquets de tabacs, en gros, biconiques du début du XXᵉ siècle.
- 12Arnaque à l’achat.
- 13Jeu d’enfants.
- 14Récompense ; motivation.
- 15Surplus de matière plastique restant attaché à la pièce qui vient d’être démoulée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrotte,caortte,carote,carotet,carrotte,cartote,ccarotte,craotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "carotte"
Frequency rank: #13,533 in French
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