Carissa
"carissa" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Carissa” is uncommon English (frequency #67,295 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,295
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carissa · Carissa · English
Carissa · rank #67,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,295
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cannibalistic
Nearest frequency peer: cannibalistic (-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 “Carissa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Buttigieg
Buttigieg
32,713 corpus weight
- cannibalist…
cannibalistic
32,707 corpus weight
- Carissa
Carissa
32,706 corpus weight
- casework
casework
32,703 corpus weight
- caulk
caulk
32,702 corpus weight
- chancellery
chancellery
32,699 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Carissa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carissa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Carissa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Carissa is uncommon English at frequency #67,295 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name.".
Carissa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Carissa, spelled C-A-R-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Carissa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Carissa gave him a sideways glance and smiled ruefully.
“Wow,” said Carissa. “I guess activism runs in the family.”
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).