Carsten
The verdict
“Carsten” is uncommon French (frequency #69,660 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,660
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carsten · Carsten · French
Carsten · rank #69,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,660
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnassier
Nearest frequency peer: carnassier (-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 « Carsten »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carburateurs
carburateurs
30,344 corpus weight
- carnassier
carnassier
30,342 corpus weight
- Carsten
Carsten
30,341 corpus weight
- cartonnent
cartonnent
30,340 corpus weight
- Castonguay
Castonguay
30,339 corpus weight
- Catania
Catania
30,338 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Carsten » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carsten |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Carsten » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Carsten is uncommon French at frequency #69,660 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Carsten has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Carsten, spelled C-A-R-S-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Carsten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Paru en 2021, le livre est signé par le sexothérapeute Carsten Müller et illustré par l’artiste Claire Völker.
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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