carrousels
\ka.ʁu.zɛl\
The verdict
“carrousels” is uncommon French (frequency #97,761 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,761
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carrousel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrousels · carrousels · French
carrousels · rank #97,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,761
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carrache
Nearest frequency peer: Carrache (-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 « carrousels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caniculaires
caniculaires
2,244 corpus weight
- carbonisati…
carbonisation
2,243 corpus weight
- cardia
cardia
2,242 corpus weight
- Carrache
Carrache
2,241 corpus weight
- carrousels
carrousels
2,240 corpus weight
- cashmere
cashmere
2,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carrousels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrousels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁu.zɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carrousels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carrousels is uncommon French at frequency #97,761 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁu.zɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de carrousel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carrousels in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 carrousels, spelled C-A-R-R-O-U-S-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carrousel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carrousels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À part les manèges, les tirs, les hideux bazars forains, exception faite pour les carrousels qui mettent le mal de mer à la portée des classes laborieuses, tandis que mugissent les orgues hydrauliques, maladie exécrable de l’oreille et que les suppôts du Roi de Thune pilonnent, avec l’assentiment du maigre Lépine, les électeurs agglomérés ; à part ces men…
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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