carpette

/\kaʁ.pɛt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#62,127

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

carpette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tapis mobile qui ne recouvre qu’une partie du parquet d’une chambre. Pronounced \kaʁ.pɛt\.

Key facts for carpette
PropertyValue
Headwordcarpette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.pɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#62,127
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for carpette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.pɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,127 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for carpette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 carpette, spelled C-A-R-P-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tapis mobile qui ne recouvre qu’une partie du parquet d’une chambre.
  2. 2
    Personne qui se laisse subordonner sans réagir.
  3. 3
    Drap grossier, souvent rayé, qui servait à l’emballage.
  4. 4
    Coiffe jadis portée par les paysannes.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #62,127 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carpette"?
"carpette" is spelled C-A-R-P-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.pɛt\.
What does "carpette" mean?
As a noun, "carpette" means: Tapis mobile qui ne recouvre qu’une partie du parquet d’une chambre.
How do you pronounce "carpette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carpette" is \kaʁ.pɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carpette" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.