carriole
\ka.ʁjɔl\
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
- cambouis
cambouis
44,883 corpus weight
- caractérisa…
caractérisait
44,882 corpus weight
- carnassiers
carnassiers
44,881 corpus weight
- carriole
carriole
44,880 corpus weight
- catalyse
catalyse
44,879 corpus weight
- cathode
cathode
44,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carriole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carriole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁjɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carriole » en français
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
- 1Petite charrette couverte et grossièrement suspendue.
- 2Tout attelage tiré par un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carriole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit passer quantité de petites carrioles qui portent un jeune homme et une jeune fille; […].
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.
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