careful
\kɛəɹfəl\
The verdict
“careful” is uncommon French (frequency #92,529 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,529
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prudent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-careful · careful · French
careful · rank #92,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,529
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassais
Nearest frequency peer: cassais (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « careful »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- captages
captages
7,476 corpus weight
- caracal
caracal
7,475 corpus weight
- careful
careful
7,472 corpus weight
- cassais
cassais
7,471 corpus weight
- cede
cede
7,469 corpus weight
- cellular
cellular
7,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « careful » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | careful |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɛəɹfəl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « careful » en français
Rare enough to double-check
careful is uncommon French at frequency #92,529 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɛəɹfəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for careful, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is careful, spelled C-A-R-E-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Prudent.
- 2Soigneux.
- 3Doucement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how careful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Be careful, or you'll fall in.
careful atention
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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