carabine

\ka.ʁa.bin\

/\ka.ʁa.bin\/ noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“carabine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,195
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arme à feu d’épaule, plus légère et moins puissante qu’un fusil, et généralement à canon rayé, utilisée dans la cavalerie, la gendarmerie, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carabine · carabine · French

carabine · rank #22,195 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,195
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH capillaire

Nearest frequency peer: capillaire (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « carabine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « carabine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

carabine vs Carine
63% similar
carabine vs carbone
75% similar
carabine vs caraïbe
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for carabine
PropertyValue
Headwordcarabine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁa.bin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#22,195
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carabine »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.carabinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « capillaire » (#22,194), « caser » (#22,196), « camerounaise » (#22,192). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « carabine » est au #22,195. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around carabine (IPA \ka.ʁa.bin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,195 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for carabine, with forms such as "acrabine", "caarbine", and "carabbine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Carine", "carbone", "caraïbe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is carabine, spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arme à feu d’épaule, plus légère et moins puissante qu’un fusil, et généralement à canon rayé, utilisée dans la cavalerie, la gendarmerie, etc.
  2. 2
    Arme à feu d’épaule du type fusil, le plus souvent à canon lisse, tirant généralement des cartouches chargées de plombs.
  3. 3
    Jouet d’enfant imitant l’arme à feu du même nom.
  4. 4
    Étudiante en médecine.
  5. 5
    Grisette, amante, souvent pauvre, d’un étudiant en médecine (au xixᵉ siècle).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how carabine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En France, les armes du cavalier léger sont la Carabine, le Pistolet, le Sabre et la Lance.
  2. Nos chasseurs à pied surtout, avec leurs carabines qui envoient un homme ad patres à des distances de tous les diables, avaient la manie de chercher leur cible quotidienne de l’autre côté du ravin.

Synonyms

fusil

This word in other languages

carbine(English)carabina(Español)Karabiner(Deutsch)carabina(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acrabine
  • caarbine
  • carabbine
  • carabien
  • carabinne
  • carabnie
  • caraibne
  • carbaine
  • carrabine
  • ccarabine
  • craabine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carabine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acrabine2caarbine2carabbine1carabien2carabinne1carabnie2caraibne2carbaine2
Edit distance from "carabine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carabine"?
"carabine" is spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁa.bin\.
What does "carabine" mean?
As a noun, "carabine" means: Arme à feu d’épaule, plus légère et moins puissante qu’un fusil, et généralement à canon rayé, utilisée dans la cavalerie, la gendarmerie, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "carabine"?
"carabine" is commonly confused with "Carine", "carbone", "caraïbe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carabine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carabine" is \ka.ʁa.bin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carabine" come from?
"carabine" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carabine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chaudron#22,202Chaumont#22,203Boniface#22,184bagarres#22,177

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

colloques11 variantscorbeille11 variantsdiocèses11 variantsdiraient11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list