carine
"carine" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carine” is uncommon English (frequency #84,067 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,067
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A keel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carine · carine · English
carine · rank #84,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,067
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Carlsson
Nearest frequency peer: Carlsson (+2 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 “carine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cambrai
Cambrai
15,939 corpus weight
- cannibalize
cannibalize
15,938 corpus weight
- carine
carine
15,934 corpus weight
- Carlsson
Carlsson
15,932 corpus weight
- carrow
carrow
15,931 corpus weight
- cartes
cartes
15,930 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “carine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “carine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
carine is uncommon English at frequency #84,067 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A keel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carine, 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: See carina. The correct English form is carine, spelled C-A-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A keel.
Etymology
See carina.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).