carême
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,362
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carême is aFrenchnoun. It means: Temps d’abstinence et de jeûne qui comprend quarante-six jours entre le mardi gras et le jour de Pâques, et pendant lequel un certain nombre de jeûnes, d’abstinences et d’autres privations sont ord... Pronounced \ka.ʁɛm\. Often confused with crée and carte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carême |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carême is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,362 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for carême, with forms such as "acrême", "careme", and "carmêe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crée", "carte", "crime", 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 carême, spelled C-A-R-Ê-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Temps d’abstinence et de jeûne qui comprend quarante-six jours entre le mardi gras et le jour de Pâques, et pendant lequel un certain nombre de jeûnes, d’abstinences et d’autres privations sont ordonnées par l’Église.
- 2Tous les sermons qu’un prédicateur prêche pendant un carême.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrême,careme,carmêe,carrême,carêem,carêmme,caêrme,ccarême,craême
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carême
Misspelling Variants of "carême"
Frequency rank: #17,362 in French
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