car
\kaʁ\
The verdict
“car” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #162) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #162
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introduit une explication, une raison, une cause à une proposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-car · car · French
car · rank #162 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #162
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH 4
Nearest frequency peer: 4 (-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 « car »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- doit
doit
99,842 corpus weight
- partie
partie
99,841 corpus weight
- 4
4
99,840 corpus weight
- car
car
99,839 corpus weight
- Eu
Eu
99,838 corpus weight
- mal
mal
99,837 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « car » 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 | car |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « car »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for car is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced \kaʁ\. Frequency #162 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Introduit une explication, une raison, une cause à une proposition.".
car doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is car, spelled C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Introduit une explication, une raison, une cause à une proposition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how car appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous ne le trouverez pas chez lui, car je viens de le voir dans la rue.
…—et tout l’appartement sentait un peu le moisi, car le plancher était plus bas que le jardin.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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