carinae
"carinae" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carinae” is uncommon English (frequency #95,797 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,797
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of carina
Corpus desk
Index EN-carinae · carinae · English
carinae · rank #95,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,797
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH carcinoid
Nearest frequency peer: carcinoid (-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 “carinae”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- caracal
caracal
4,206 corpus weight
- carcinoid
carcinoid
4,205 corpus weight
- carinae
carinae
4,204 corpus weight
- Carinthia
Carinthia
4,203 corpus weight
- carload
carload
4,202 corpus weight
- carpetbagger
carpetbagger
4,199 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “carinae” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carinae |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “carinae” in English
Rare enough to double-check
carinae is uncommon English at frequency #95,797 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of carina".
No generated misspelling entries exist for carinae in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is carinae, spelled C-A-R-I-N-A-E.
Definition
- 1plural of carina
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carinae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Both upper and lower crowns have carinae fore and aft but are otherwise smooth and remarkably stout (Fig. 2 E).
The teeth are devoid of carinae, lacking any kind of ornamentation.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).