carpaccio
\kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\
The verdict
“carpaccio” is uncommon French (frequency #61,378 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,378
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préparation de viande de bœuf crue, coupée en fines tranches, arrosée de vinaigre balsamique, d’huile d’olive, et parfois de parmesan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carpaccio · carpaccio · French
carpaccio · rank #61,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,378
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caricaturaux
Nearest frequency peer: caricaturaux (-2 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 « carpaccio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- captés
captés
38,627 corpus weight
- carbones
carbones
38,626 corpus weight
- caricaturaux
caricaturaux
38,625 corpus weight
- carpaccio
carpaccio
38,623 corpus weight
- cation
cation
38,620 corpus weight
- catégoriques
catégoriques
38,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carpaccio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carpaccio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carpaccio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carpaccio is uncommon French at frequency #61,378 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.pat.ʃ(j)o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carpaccio, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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. The correct French form is carpaccio, spelled C-A-R-P-A-C-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1Préparation de viande de bœuf crue, coupée en fines tranches, arrosée de vinaigre balsamique, d’huile d’olive, et parfois de parmesan.
- 2Préparation d’autres aliments crus, tels que les viandes blanches, les volailles, les poissons ou les crustacés, de fruits ou de légumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carpaccio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait du carpaccio, de l’huile d’olive et du citron.
Carpaccio de saumon, de fruits frais.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).