carron
\ka.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“carron” is uncommon French (frequency #65,774 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,774
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grosse brique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carron · carron · French
carron · rank #65,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carolingien
Nearest frequency peer: carolingien (-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 « carron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carlingue
carlingue
34,230 corpus weight
- carnation
carnation
34,229 corpus weight
- carolingien
carolingien
34,228 corpus weight
- carron
carron
34,227 corpus weight
- cartoons
cartoons
34,226 corpus weight
- cascadeurs
cascadeurs
34,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carron is uncommon French at frequency #65,774 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grosse brique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carron, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is carron, spelled C-A-R-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Grosse brique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut citer aussi l’industrie des carrons ou grandes briques savoyardes qui dans nos pays remplaçaient couramment la pierre de taille qu’on devait aller chercher fort loin et à très grands frais.
À défaut de bouillottes, on utilisait des « carrons », grosses briques chauffées à la cheminée, enveloppées dans du drap, mais je ne parviens pas à me souvenir si j’ai vu cette méthode utilisée en vrai, ou dans un film, ou si on me l’a seulement décrite.
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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