carrossier
\ka.ʁɔ.sje\
The verdict
“carrossier” is uncommon French (frequency #51,949 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,949
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifiait les animaux de trait propres à tirer les carrosses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrossier · carrossier · French
carrossier · rank #51,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,949
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH casbah
Nearest frequency peer: casbah (+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 « carrossier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carat
carat
48,056 corpus weight
- carcinome
carcinome
48,055 corpus weight
- Caribbean
Caribbean
48,054 corpus weight
- carrossier
carrossier
48,052 corpus weight
- casbah
casbah
48,051 corpus weight
- centralisés
centralisés
48,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carrossier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrossier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔ.sje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carrossier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carrossier is uncommon French at frequency #51,949 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ʁɔ.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carrossier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 carrossier, spelled C-A-R-R-O-S-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qualifiait les animaux de trait propres à tirer les carrosses.
- 2Relatif à la carrosserie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carrossier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
nᵒ 2 Une médaille d'argent à M. Prigent Cougard, de Plouénan (Finistère), pour sa pouliche Mystère, dont suit le signalement : espèce carrossière ; âge, deux ans; robe aubère; taille 1 m. 54; origine : père, Sénégal, demi-sang; aug. normand; […].
Le vieux cocher était devenu jardinier, le vicomte se chargeant de conduire lui-même et ayant vendu les carrossiers pour n'avoir plus à payer leur nourriture.
This word in other languages
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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