carpette
\kaʁ.pɛt\
The verdict
“carpette” is uncommon French (frequency #62,127 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,127
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tapis mobile qui ne recouvre qu’une partie du parquet d’une chambre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carpette · carpette · French
carpette · rank #62,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,127
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnavalesque
Nearest frequency peer: carnavalesque (-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 « carpette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caressent
caressent
37,876 corpus weight
- carnavalesq…
carnavalesque
37,875 corpus weight
- carpette
carpette
37,874 corpus weight
- cathartique
cathartique
37,873 corpus weight
- censitaire
censitaire
37,872 corpus weight
- cervelles
cervelles
37,871 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carpette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carpette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carpette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carpette is uncommon French at frequency #62,127 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.pɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for carpette in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is carpette, spelled C-A-R-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Tapis mobile qui ne recouvre qu’une partie du parquet d’une chambre.
- 2Personne qui se laisse subordonner sans réagir.
- 3Drap grossier, souvent rayé, qui servait à l’emballage.
- 4Coiffe jadis portée par les paysannes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carpette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était alors plus amoureux de moi que jamais. Il prenait mes carpettes pour tapis de prière et gerçait la peau de mon poignet à force de le baiser…
Elle ouvrit la fenêtre pour secouer la carpette où un infirmer avait laissé des traces de pas.
This word in other languages
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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