carabiner
/ˌkæ.ɹəˈbiː.nə/
"carabiner" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carabiner” is uncommon English (frequency #89,200 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,200
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carabiner · carabiner · English
carabiner · rank #89,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,200
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Capulet
Nearest frequency peer: Capulet (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “carabiner”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- calorimeter
calorimeter
10,806 corpus weight
- Capulet
Capulet
10,802 corpus weight
- carabiner
carabiner
10,801 corpus weight
- Carnoustie
Carnoustie
10,798 corpus weight
- carrel
carrel
10,797 corpus weight
- Cartersville
Cartersville
10,796 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “carabiner” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carabiner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkæ.ɹəˈbiː.nə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “carabiner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
carabiner is uncommon English at frequency #89,200 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌkæ.ɹəˈbiː.nə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.".
carabiner has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Shortened from German Karabinerhaken. Related to carabine and carbine. The correct English form is carabiner, spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carabiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A carrabeener (metal clasp used in rock climbing) inside the pipes was devised as a release out, a tactic lent to them by Greenpeace.
Etymology
Shortened from German Karabinerhaken. Related to carabine and carbine.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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