carotte

French, noun

carotte is spelled C-A-R-O-T-T-E (7 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written French, the 13,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carotte is a French feminine noun meaning “carrot (vegetable)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, carotté is a different word: “alternative form of carreauté”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante potagère du genre Daucus de la famille des Apiaceae, (Apiacées) – anciennement Ombellifères –, à…”.

What does carotte mean in English?

noun

1
femininecarrot (vegetable)
2
femininecarotte (cylindrical roll of tobacco)
3
femininethe red sign outside a tabac or bar-tabac
4
femininecore sample (of sediment, ice, etc)

adjective

as carotté

1
Quebecalternative form of carreauté

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Plante potagère du genre Daucus de la famille des Apiaceae, (Apiacées) – anciennement Ombellifères –, à racine pivotante et charnue, douce, sucrée, comestible. 2. Légume racine constitué de la racine de Daucus carota en particulier la sous espèce sativus qui se mange crue ou cuite. 3. Nom donné à différentes Apiaceae du genre Daucus (autres que Daucus carotta), et des genres Amni, Athamantha, Cicuta, etc. dont certaines peuvent être toxiques. 4. Appât, par analogie avec ce que l’on montre à l’âne pour le faire avancer.

noun: 1. Couleur rouge tirant sur le roux, orange. #F4661B

adjective: 1. D'une couleur rappelant celle du carotte.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of carotte

carottes plural
carottée feminine
carottés masculine plural
carottées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to carotte

carrot

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is carotte in French?

carotte appears 3.8 times per million words in written French.

carotte0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).