Caraïbes
\ka.ʁa.ib\
The verdict
“Caraïbes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,836
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région de l’Atlantique Nord constituée de la mer des Caraïbes et des terres et îles adjacentes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caraibes · Caraïbes · French
Caraïbes · rank #10,836 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,836
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capturer
Nearest frequency peer: capturer (-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 « Caraïbes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Brooklyn
Brooklyn
89,168 corpus weight
- camus
camus
89,167 corpus weight
- capturer
capturer
89,166 corpus weight
- Caraïbes
Caraïbes
89,165 corpus weight
- Charente
Charente
89,164 corpus weight
- cherchais
cherchais
89,163 corpus weight
What this shows « Caraïbes » 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 | Caraïbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.ib\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Caraïbes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Caraïbes (IPA \ka.ʁa.ib\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région de l’Atlantique Nord constituée de la mer des Caraïbes et des terres et îles adjacentes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Caraïbes, with forms such as "acraïbes", "caarïbes", and "carabïes". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "crabes", "caries", "caraïbe", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Caraïbes, spelled C-A-R-A-Ï-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Région de l’Atlantique Nord constituée de la mer des Caraïbes et des terres et îles adjacentes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Caraïbes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le suc d’une certaine plante appelée par les Caraïbes touloula, et par les Français herbes aux flèches, est, dit-on, le seul remède contre les plaies faites par les flèches empoisonnées avec le suc de mancenilier.
Ça caille en ce moment. Moi, j’étais en vacances dans les Caraïbes, 30°C à l’ombre... C’est toujours agréable quand on a très chaud de savoir que les autres se les pèlent...On profite mieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acraïbes
- caarïbes
- carabïes
- caraïbbes
- caraïbess
- caraïbse
- caraïebs
- carraïbes
- carïabes
- ccaraïbes
- craaïbes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Caraïbes - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).