papier carbone
\pa.pje kaʁ.bɔn\
The verdict
“papier carbone” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fin papier au dos duquel est appliqué une substance colorante, dont le but est de reproduire un document que l'on écrit par dessus en plusieurs exemplaires (deux ou trois), par pression d'un stylo ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papier carbone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pje kaʁ.bɔn\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papier carbone” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for papier carbone is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pje kaʁ.bɔn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fin papier au dos duquel est appliqué une substance colorante, dont le but est de reproduire un document que l'on écrit par dessus en plusieurs exemplaires (deux ou trois), par pression d'un stylo ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for papier carbone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 papier carbone, spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -C-A-R-B-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fin papier au dos duquel est appliqué une substance colorante, dont le but est de reproduire un document que l'on écrit par dessus en plusieurs exemplaires (deux ou trois), par pression d'un stylo ou de tout autre instrument d'écriture suffisamment dur et pointu, comme une machine à écrire. Pour pouvoir faire jusqu'à 5 ou 7 exemplaires on utilisait un papier très fin nommé pelure.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-P-I-E-R- -C-A-R-B-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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