caire
\kɛʁ\
The verdict
“caire” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,938) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,938
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoupe de fibres de coco.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caire · caire · French
caire · rank #7,938 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,938
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH brute
Nearest frequency peer: brute (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « caire »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- boue
boue
92,066 corpus weight
- bourses
bourses
92,065 corpus weight
- brute
brute
92,064 corpus weight
- caire
caire
92,063 corpus weight
- call
call
92,062 corpus weight
- cia
cia
92,061 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « caire » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « caire »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for caire is neighbouring look-alikes ("car", "Cir", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kɛʁ\. Frequency #7,938 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Étoupe de fibres de coco.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for caire, with forms such as "cairre", "ccaire", and "ciare". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "car", "Cir", "Cré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is caire, spelled C-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Étoupe de fibres de coco.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CAIRE, Enveloppe filamenteuse du coco avec laquelle on peut fabriquer des cordages et des étoffes grossières.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cairre
- ccaire
- ciare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).