cartevsClareTell them apart

Quick tell: carte is a noun, Clare is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“carte” is a noun and “Clare” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#35,688
“carte” frequency rank
#39,271
“Clare” frequency rank
74959
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature carte Clare
Definition Zettel, Karton ein County bzw. eine historische Grafschaft in der Provinz Ulster, Republik Irland

Letter map: carte vs Clare

Shared letters muted; letters that set carte and Clare apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. carte (CVCCV) and Clare (CCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
carte
5 ch
Clare

Part-of-speech tell for carte / Clare

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: carte is anoun and Clareaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74959, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

carte is recorded at frequency rank #35,688, classified as anoun, pronounced [kaʁt]. Clare is at rank #39,271, tagged as aname, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 74959, this pair ranks #320,011 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of carte vs Clare

Shared letters: acer. Private to "carte": t. Private to "Clare": l.

"carte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "Clare" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • carte ← acrte · caret · carrte · cartte · catre · ccarte · crate
  • Clare ← calre · cclare · clarre · cllare · clrae · lcare

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "carte" for "Clare" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "carte" is a noun and "Clare" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "carte" or "Clare"?
"carte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,688 in our German list, against #39,271 for "Clare". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "carte" and "Clare".

  • Full dictionary entry for "carte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Clare" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #320,011 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "carte" and "Clare" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Clare vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #320,011 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list