carrousel
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,090
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
carrousel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Exercice de parade où des cavaliers, divisés en quadrilles, exécutent des évolutions variées et des jeux. Pronounced \ka.ʁu.zɛl\. Often confused with carrosse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrousel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁu.zɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carrousel is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁu.zɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,090 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for carrousel, with forms such as "acrrousel", "carorusel", and "carousel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "carrosse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carrousel, spelled C-A-R-R-O-U-S-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exercice de parade où des cavaliers, divisés en quadrilles, exécutent des évolutions variées et des jeux.
- 2Place où se déroulent ces parades.
- 3Mouvement d’un ensemble de personnes semblable à un exercice de parade.
- 4Groupe d’engins qui se déplacent en cercle ou en noria.
- 5Manège de chevaux de bois.
- 6Partie d’une machine-outil qui tourne comme un manège.
- 7Galerie d'images ou photographies qui défilent.
- 8Galerie d'images ou photographies qui défilent.
- 9Galerie d'images ou photographies qui défilent.
- 10Machine de sérigraphie permettant d’appliquer plusieurs couches successives.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrrousel,carorusel,carousel,carrosuel,carrouesl,carrousell,carrousle,carroussel,carruosel,ccarrousel,crarousel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carrousel
Misspelling Variants of "carrousel"
Frequency rank: #30,090 in French
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Nearby French words
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