carus
\ka.ʁys\
The verdict
“carus” is uncommon French (frequency #95,666 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,666
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Degré extrême du coma.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carus · carus · French
carus · rank #95,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartulaires
Nearest frequency peer: cartulaires (-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 « carus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caroténoïdes
caroténoïdes
4,339 corpus weight
- Carsat
Carsat
4,338 corpus weight
- cartulaires
cartulaires
4,336 corpus weight
- carus
carus
4,335 corpus weight
- Castets
Castets
4,333 corpus weight
- caudalie
caudalie
4,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carus is uncommon French at frequency #95,666 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Degré extrême du coma.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carus, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 carus, spelled C-A-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Degré extrême du coma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les cas graves, on observe un coma très profond, le carus, avec soubresauts des tendons et quelquefois carphologie.
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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