carabe
\ka.ʁab\
The verdict
“carabe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insecte carnassier de l’ordre des coléoptères et de la famille des carabidés au corps allongé, souvent brillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carabe · carabe · French
carabe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carabe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁab\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carabe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carabe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Insecte carnassier de l’ordre des coléoptères et de la famille des carabidés au corps allongé, souvent brillant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carabe in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is carabe, spelled C-A-R-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Insecte carnassier de l’ordre des coléoptères et de la famille des carabidés au corps allongé, souvent brillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carabe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des insectes végétariens, tels que les Melonlonthiens n’ont pas de trace de lipase, alors que les Dytiques, les Carabes, ont une diastase lipasique très abondante.
Que toute douleur soit en toi le passage d’un insecte qui va s’envoler. Ne te referme pas sur l’insecte rongeur. Ne deviens pas amoureux de ces carabes noirs. Que toute joie soit en toi le passage d’un insecte qui va s’envoler. Ne te referme pas sur l’insecte suceur. Ne deviens pas amoureux de ces cétoines dorées.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.