carriole

\ka.ʁjɔl\

/\ka.ʁjɔl\/ noun

The verdict

“carriole” is uncommon French (frequency #55,121 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,121
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite charrette couverte et grossièrement suspendue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carriole · carriole · French

carriole · rank #55,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,121
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH carnassiers

Nearest frequency peer: carnassiers (-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 « carriole »

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 « carriole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for carriole
PropertyValue
Headwordcarriole
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁjɔl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#55,121
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « carriole » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.carrioletombe 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: « carnassiers » (#55,120), « catalyse » (#55,122), « caractérisait » (#55,119). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « carriole » est au #55,121. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

carriole is uncommon French at frequency #55,121 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁjɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for carriole in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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. The correct French form is carriole, spelled C-A-R-R-I-O-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite charrette couverte et grossièrement suspendue.
  2. 2
    Tout attelage tiré par un animal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On voit passer quantité de petites carrioles qui portent un jeune homme et une jeune fille; […].
  2. J'avais laissé Reykjavik, un grand village ; […] ; des poneys et une ou deux mauvaises carrioles assuraient le transport.

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 "carriole"?
"carriole" is spelled C-A-R-R-I-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁjɔl\.
What does "carriole" mean?
As a noun, "carriole" means: Petite charrette couverte et grossièrement suspendue.
How do you pronounce "carriole"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carriole" is \ka.ʁjɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carriole" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list