caraïbe
\ka.ʁa.ib\
The verdict
“caraïbe” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,726
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui vient des Caraïbes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caraibe · caraïbe · French
caraïbe · rank #32,726 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,726
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cane
Nearest frequency peer: cane (-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 « caraïbe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cali
Cali
67,278 corpus weight
- cane
cane
67,276 corpus weight
- caraïbe
caraïbe
67,275 corpus weight
- carcérale
carcérale
67,274 corpus weight
- cautionner
cautionner
67,273 corpus weight
- Cavendish
Cavendish
67,272 corpus weight
What this shows « caraïbe » 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 | caraïbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.ib\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caraïbe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around caraïbe (IPA \ka.ʁa.ib\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,726 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui vient des Caraïbes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for caraïbe, with forms such as "acraïbe", "caarïbe", and "carabïe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "crabe", "craie", "carie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 caraïbe, spelled C-A-R-A-Ï-B-E.
Definition
- 1Qui vient des Caraïbes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caraïbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La route quitte le bleu de la côte caraïbe et s’enfonce dans le vert foncé, celui des plantations de bananes.
Contrairement à une idée reçue, les apports africains sont négligeables. Par contre les emprunts – aux langues caraïbes, au malgache, au portugais selon les cas - sont plus importants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acraïbe
- caarïbe
- carabïe
- caraïbbe
- caraïeb
- carraïbe
- carïabe
- ccaraïbe
- craaïbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caraïbe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).