carpet
\ˈkɑɹ.pət\
The verdict
“carpet” is uncommon French (frequency #59,146 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,146
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moquette, carpette, tapis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carpet · carpet · French
carpet · rank #59,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,146
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carpates
Nearest frequency peer: Carpates (-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 « carpet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caricaturer
caricaturer
40,858 corpus weight
- carolingiens
carolingiens
40,857 corpus weight
- Carpates
Carpates
40,856 corpus weight
- carpet
carpet
40,855 corpus weight
- cassage
cassage
40,854 corpus weight
- castello
castello
40,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carpet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carpet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɑɹ.pət\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carpet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carpet is uncommon French at frequency #59,146 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɑɹ.pət\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moquette, carpette, tapis.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carpet, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is carpet, spelled C-A-R-P-E-T.
Definition
- 1Moquette, carpette, tapis.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).