carbure
\kaʁ.byʁ\
The verdict
“carbure” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,390
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé formé par la combinaison du carbone avec un corps simple autre que l’oxygène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carbure · carbure · French
carbure · rank #31,390 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,390
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cancéreux
Nearest frequency peer: cancéreux (-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 « carbure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caillot
caillot
68,614 corpus weight
- canap
canap
68,613 corpus weight
- cancéreux
cancéreux
68,612 corpus weight
- carbure
carbure
68,611 corpus weight
- carcéral
carcéral
68,610 corpus weight
- Carpentras
Carpentras
68,609 corpus weight
What this shows « carbure » 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 | carbure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.byʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carbure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around carbure (IPA \kaʁ.byʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,390 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for carbure, with forms such as "acrbure", "cabrure", and "carbbure". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "carré", "carrure", "cassure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 carbure, spelled C-A-R-B-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Composé formé par la combinaison du carbone avec un corps simple autre que l’oxygène.
- 2Carbure de calcium, utilisé dans les lampes ou les chalumeaux à acétylène.
- 3Argent, fric.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carbure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est probable que la décomposition par la chaleur de l'acide acétique et des composés du même ordre à équivalents plus élevés, étant opérée dans des conditions déshydrogénantes, formera, outre la benzine, toute la série des carbures analogues.
La fragilité des aciers carburés trempés, comparable à celle du verre, semble, elle aussi, une propriété caractéristique du carbure trempant du fer β plutôt que du fer β lui—même.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrbure
- cabrure
- carbbure
- carbrue
- carbuer
- carburre
- carrbure
- carubre
- ccarbure
- crabure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carbure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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