carême
\ka.ʁɛm\
The verdict
“carême” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,362
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-careme · carême · French
carême · rank #17,362 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,362
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carthage
Nearest frequency peer: Carthage (-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 « carême »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capitalistes
capitalistes
82,642 corpus weight
- Carthage
Carthage
82,640 corpus weight
- carême
carême
82,639 corpus weight
- castor
castor
82,638 corpus weight
- ceintures
ceintures
82,637 corpus weight
- cellulaires
cellulaires
82,636 corpus weight
What this shows « carême » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carême »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around carême (IPA \ka.ʁɛm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,362 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for carême, with forms such as "acrême", "careme", and "carmêe". 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 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 carême, spelled C-A-R-Ê-M-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carême appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prêtres idiots et cruels ! à qui ordonnez-vous le carême ? Est-ce aux riches ? ils se gardent bien de l'observer. Est-ce aux pauvres ? ils font carême toute l'année.
Elle jeûna tout un carême, et resta sans commettre le moindre péché ; […].
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrême
- careme
- carmêe
- carrême
- carêem
- carêmme
- caêrme
- ccarême
- craême
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carême - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).