carénage

\ka.ʁe.naʒ\

/\ka.ʁe.naʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“carénage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,541. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,541
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où l’on répare la carène d’un bâtiment.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carenage · carénage · French

carénage · rank #49,541 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,541
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH carrez

Nearest frequency peer: carrez (-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 « carénage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « carénage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

carénage vs carène
63% similar
carénage vs carnage
88% similar
carénage vs carence
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for carénage
PropertyValue
Headwordcarénage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁe.naʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#49,541
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carénage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).carénagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « carrez » (#49,540), « casseur » (#49,542), « CCE » (#49,543). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « carénage » est au #49,541. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around carénage (IPA \ka.ʁe.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,541 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for carénage, with forms such as "acrénage", "carenage", and "carnéage". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "carène", "carnage", "carence", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is carénage, spelled C-A-R-É-N-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu où l’on répare la carène d’un bâtiment.
  2. 2
    Action de caréner ou résultat de cette action.
  3. 3
    Carrosserie de certains véhicules permettant de diminuer la résistance à l’air.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how carénage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le navire est au carénage. Bassin de carénage. Gril de carénage.
  2. Il se pouvait aussi qu’il eût été s’amarrer au milieu des docks ou même au bassin de radoub pour quelque opération de carénage.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acrénage
  • carenage
  • carnéage
  • carrénage
  • caréange
  • carénaeg
  • carénagge
  • caréngae
  • carénnage
  • caérnage
  • ccarénage
  • craénage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carénage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

acrénage2carenage1carnéage2carrénage1caréange2carénaeg2carénagge1caréngae2
Edit distance from "carénage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carénage"?
"carénage" is spelled C-A-R-É-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁe.naʒ\.
What does "carénage" mean?
As a noun, "carénage" means: Lieu où l’on répare la carène d’un bâtiment.
What words are commonly confused with "carénage"?
"carénage" is commonly confused with "carène", "carnage", "carence". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carénage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carénage" is \ka.ʁe.naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carénage" come from?
"carénage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carénage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list