carpelles
\kaʁ.pɛl\
The verdict
“carpelles” is uncommon French (frequency #86,522 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,522
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carpelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carpelles · carpelles · French
carpelles · rank #86,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,522
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnés
Nearest frequency peer: carnés (-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 « carpelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caribéen
caribéen
13,482 corpus weight
- carmélite
carmélite
13,481 corpus weight
- carnés
carnés
13,480 corpus weight
- carpelles
carpelles
13,479 corpus weight
- cartoucherie
cartoucherie
13,478 corpus weight
- casquer
casquer
13,477 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carpelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carpelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carpelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carpelles is uncommon French at frequency #86,522 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.pɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de carpelle.".
carpelles has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is carpelles, spelled C-A-R-P-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carpelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carpelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce poids témoigne de la densité de la pulpe contenue dans les carpelles, ses enveloppes que nous appelons quartiers.
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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