carafe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,851
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carafe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de bouteille de verre ou de cristal, avec ou sans bouchon, plus large par le bas que par le haut, qui sert principalement à contenir l’eau et quelquefois le vin ou les liqueurs que l’on sert ... Pronounced \ka.ʁaf\. Often confused with care and carte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carafe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁaf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carafe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁaf\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,851 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for carafe, with forms such as "acrafe", "caarfe", and "caraef". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "care", "carte", "carré", 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 carafe, spelled C-A-R-A-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de bouteille de verre ou de cristal, avec ou sans bouchon, plus large par le bas que par le haut, qui sert principalement à contenir l’eau et quelquefois le vin ou les liqueurs que l’on sert à table.
- 2Quantité de liquide contenue dans une carafe.
- 3Tête.
- 4Événement fâcheux et imprévu.
- 5Récipient cylindrique en verre, avec poignée, bec et couvercle troué, conçu pour s’intégrer à une cafetière à filtre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrafe,caarfe,caraef,caraffe,carfae,carrafe,ccarafe,craafe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carafe
Misspelling Variants of "carafe"
Frequency rank: #35,851 in French
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