carriers
\ka.ʁje\
The verdict
“carriers” is uncommon French (frequency #70,460 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,460
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carrier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carriers · carriers · French
carriers · rank #70,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,460
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carros
Nearest frequency peer: carros (+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 « carriers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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29,545 corpus weight
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29,544 corpus weight
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29,543 corpus weight
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29,541 corpus weight
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29,540 corpus weight
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29,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carriers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carriers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carriers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carriers is uncommon French at frequency #70,460 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de carrier.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for carriers, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is carriers, spelled C-A-R-R-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carrier.
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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