carquois

\kaʁ.kwa\

/\kaʁ.kwa\/ noun

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The verdict

“carquois” is uncommon French (frequency #71,338 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,338
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étui à flèches.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carquois · carquois · French

carquois · rank #71,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,338
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Carolo

Nearest frequency peer: Carolo (-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 « carquois »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carquois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for carquois
PropertyValue
Headwordcarquois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.kwa\
Letters8
Frequency rank#71,338
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « carquois » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.carquoistombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Carolo » (#71,337), « carrossable » (#71,339), « carrot » (#71,340). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « carquois » est au #71,338. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

carquois is uncommon French at frequency #71,338 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.kwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

carquois has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is carquois, spelled C-A-R-Q-U-O-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étui à flèches.
  2. 2
    Étui conçu pour la manutention, le transport ou l’entreposage des crayons de combustible nucléaire.
  3. 3
    (Mathématiques) Structure mathématique analogue à un graphe orienté. Le carquois est formellement un quadruplet composé d'un ensemble de sommets, d'un ensemble d'arcs, d'une fonction associant à chaque arc sa source et d'une fonction associant à chaque arc son but (les sources et les buts étant des sommets).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how carquois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On voit que le bushman avait renoncé au carquois d’aloës et aux flèches empoisonnées de ses compatriotes pour employer les armes européennes.
  2. Sur un signe de la Tête-d’Aigle, les fusils s’étaient redressés, et les flèches étaient rentrées au carquois.

This word in other languages

quiver(English)carcaj(Español)Köcher(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carquois"?
"carquois" is spelled C-A-R-Q-U-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.kwa\.
What does "carquois" mean?
As a noun, "carquois" means: Étui à flèches.
How do you pronounce "carquois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carquois" is \kaʁ.kwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carquois" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carquois", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list