carabine
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,195
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
carabine is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \ka.ʁa.bin\. Often confused with Carine and carbone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carabine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.bin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carabine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁa.bin\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,195 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for carabine, with forms such as "acrabine", "caarbine", and "carabbine". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Carine", "carbone", "caraïbe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carabine, spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme à feu d’épaule, plus légère et moins puissante qu’un fusil, et généralement à canon rayé, utilisée dans la cavalerie, la gendarmerie, etc.
- 2Arme à feu d’épaule du type fusil, le plus souvent à canon lisse, tirant généralement des cartouches chargées de plombs.
- 3Jouet d’enfant imitant l’arme à feu du même nom.
- 4Étudiante en médecine.
- 5Grisette, amante, souvent pauvre, d’un étudiant en médecine (au xixᵉ siècle).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrabine,caarbine,carabbine,carabien,carabinne,carabnie,caraibne,carbaine,carrabine,ccarabine,craabine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "carabine"
Frequency rank: #22,195 in French
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