carouge
\ka.ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“carouge” is uncommon French (frequency #57,151 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,151
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désigne des espèces de passereaux de plusieurs genres de la famille des Icteridae.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carouge · carouge · French
carouge · rank #57,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,151
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnival
Nearest frequency peer: carnival (-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 « carouge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- candie
candie
42,855 corpus weight
- canonniers
canonniers
42,854 corpus weight
- capturent
capturent
42,852 corpus weight
- carnival
carnival
42,851 corpus weight
- carouge
carouge
42,850 corpus weight
- castelli
castelli
42,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carouge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carouge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carouge is uncommon French at frequency #57,151 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁuʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for carouge in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is carouge, spelled C-A-R-O-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Désigne des espèces de passereaux de plusieurs genres de la famille des Icteridae.
- 2Synonyme de rotengle (poisson).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carouge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois pris le virage qui révélait la partie marécageuse du lac, j’ai essayé de me concentrer sur les solos des carouges mâles, dont les épaulettes s’exhibaient lorsque l’effort de chanter leur ouvrait les ailes.
Le carouge à calotte rousse (Chrysomus ruficapillus) est une espèce de passereau d’Amérique du Sud de la famille des ictéridés.
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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