carrot
\ˈkæɹ.ət\
The verdict
“carrot” is uncommon French (frequency #71,340 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,340
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrot · carrot · French
carrot · rank #71,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,340
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carrossable
Nearest frequency peer: carrossable (-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 « carrot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carolo
Carolo
28,664 corpus weight
- carquois
carquois
28,663 corpus weight
- carrossable
carrossable
28,662 corpus weight
- carrot
carrot
28,661 corpus weight
- casernement
casernement
28,660 corpus weight
- CCNE
CCNE
28,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carrot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkæɹ.ət\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carrot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carrot is uncommon French at frequency #71,340 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkæɹ.ət\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Carotte.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carrot, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is carrot, spelled C-A-R-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1Carotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carrot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I ate a carrot.
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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