carriériste
\ka.ʁje.ʁist\
The verdict
“carriériste” is uncommon French (frequency #68,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,888
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui ne travaille qu’à sa propre promotion sans souci particulier pour sa mission ou le bien de son entreprise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrieriste · carriériste · French
carriériste · rank #68,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,888
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carrare
Nearest frequency peer: carrare (-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 « carriériste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carmina
carmina
31,116 corpus weight
- Carolus
Carolus
31,115 corpus weight
- carrare
carrare
31,114 corpus weight
- carriériste
carriériste
31,113 corpus weight
- carrosses
carrosses
31,112 corpus weight
- cartographe
cartographe
31,111 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carriériste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carriériste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁje.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carriériste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carriériste is uncommon French at frequency #68,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ʁje.ʁist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui ne travaille qu’à sa propre promotion sans souci particulier pour sa mission ou le bien de son entreprise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carriériste, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is carriériste, spelled C-A-R-R-I-É-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui ne travaille qu’à sa propre promotion sans souci particulier pour sa mission ou le bien de son entreprise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carriériste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nus publiions des romans à l’eau de rose dont les héroïnes carriéristes cherchaient désespérément le grand amour.
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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