carpaccio

/\kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#61,378

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

carpaccio is aFrenchnoun. It means: Préparation de viande de bœuf crue, coupée en fines tranches, arrosée de vinaigre balsamique, d’huile d’olive, et parfois de parmesan. Pronounced \kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\.

Key facts for carpaccio
PropertyValue
Headwordcarpaccio
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\
Letters9
Frequency rank#61,378
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carpaccio in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for carpaccio is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\. Corpus data places it at rank #61,378 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for carpaccio in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 carpaccio, spelled C-A-R-P-A-C-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Préparation de viande de bœuf crue, coupée en fines tranches, arrosée de vinaigre balsamique, d’huile d’olive, et parfois de parmesan.
  2. 2
    Préparation d’autres aliments crus, tels que les viandes blanches, les volailles, les poissons ou les crustacés, de fruits ou de légumes.

Frequency rank: #61,378 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carpaccio"?
"carpaccio" is spelled C-A-R-P-A-C-C-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\.
What does "carpaccio" mean?
As a noun, "carpaccio" means: Préparation de viande de bœuf crue, coupée en fines tranches, arrosée de vinaigre balsamique, d’huile d’olive, et parfois de parmesan.
How do you pronounce "carpaccio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carpaccio" is \kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carpaccio" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.