carbone

/\kaʁ.bɔn\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,823

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

carbone is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 6 et de symbole C qui fait partie des non-métaux, plus spécifiquement des cristallogènes. Pronounced \kaʁ.bɔn\. It ranks #3,823 in French word frequency. Often confused with caron and carne.

Key facts for carbone
PropertyValue
Headwordcarbone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.bɔn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,823
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carbone in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for carbone is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.bɔn\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,823 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for carbone, with forms such as "acrbone", "cabrone", and "carbbone". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "caron", "carne", "carton", 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 carbone, spelled C-A-R-B-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Élément chimique de numéro atomique 6 et de symbole C qui fait partie des non-métaux, plus spécifiquement des cristallogènes.
  2. 2
    Pluriel collectif pouvant se rapporter en fonction des cas aux atomes de carbone, aux noyaux atomiques ou aux isotopes du carbone.
  3. 3
    Dioxyde de carbone.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acrbone,cabrone,carbbone,carbnoe,carboen,carbonne,carobne,carrbone,ccarbone,crabone

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carbone

Misspelling Variants of "carbone"

acrbone7cabrone7carbbone8carbnoe7carboen7carbonne8carobne7carrbone8
Misspelling Variants of "carbone"

Frequency rank: #3,823 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carbone"?
"carbone" is spelled C-A-R-B-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.bɔn\.
What does "carbone" mean?
As a noun, "carbone" means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 6 et de symbole C qui fait partie des non-métaux, plus spécifiquement des cristallogènes.
What words are commonly confused with "carbone"?
"carbone" is commonly confused with "caron", "carne", "carton". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carbone"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carbone" is \kaʁ.bɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carbone" come from?
"carbone" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.