carrosses
\ka.ʁɔs\
The verdict
“carrosses” is uncommon French (frequency #68,889 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,889
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carrosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrosses · carrosses · French
carrosses · rank #68,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,889
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carriériste
Nearest frequency peer: carriériste (-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 « carrosses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Cassiopée
Cassiopée
31,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carrosses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrosses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carrosses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carrosses is uncommon French at frequency #68,889 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de carrosse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for carrosses, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is carrosses, spelled C-A-R-R-O-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carrosse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carrosses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’en 1836 on a démoli sous le faubourg Saint-Honoré, pour le reconstruire, le vieil égout en pierre où nous voyons en ce moment Jean Valjean engagé, le sable mouvant, qui est le sous-sol des Champs-Élysées jusqu’à la Seine, fit obstacle au point que l’opération dura près de six mois, au grand récri des riverains, surtout des riverains à hôtels et à c…
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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