Caracas
\ka.ʁa.kɑs\
The verdict
“Caracas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,880
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Venezuela.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracas · Caracas · French
Caracas · rank #21,880 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,880
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caissière
Nearest frequency peer: caissière (-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 « Caracas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bronzage
bronzage
78,124 corpus weight
- caféine
caféine
78,123 corpus weight
- caissière
caissière
78,122 corpus weight
- Caracas
Caracas
78,121 corpus weight
- catalyseur
catalyseur
78,120 corpus weight
- cathédrales
cathédrales
78,119 corpus weight
What this shows « Caracas » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Caracas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.kɑs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Caracas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Caracas (IPA \ka.ʁa.kɑs\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,880 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Caracas, with forms such as "acracas", "caarcas", and "caraacs". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "carats", "carcan", "caritas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Caracas, spelled C-A-R-A-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Venezuela.
- 2Gouvernement vénézuélien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Caracas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai aucune envie de connaître l’hôpital, sans doute ultra-moderne, de Caracas !
Le rapporteur belge en tire quelques tendances déjà connues de la Défense sociale, mais qui se sont trouvées soulignées au cours des travaux de Caracas : tendance à la déjuridicisation (le droit n’a de sens qu’en tant qu’instrument au service de l’action sociale), à la dédramatisation (la délinquance est un fait normal de la vie en collectivité, ce qu’oub…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acracas
- caarcas
- caraacs
- caracass
- caraccas
- caracsa
- carcaas
- carracas
- ccaracas
- craacas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Caracas - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).