carénage
\ka.ʁe.naʒ\
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
- bungalows
bungalows
50,466 corpus weight
- bury
bury
50,465 corpus weight
- carrez
carrez
50,461 corpus weight
- carénage
carénage
50,460 corpus weight
- casseur
casseur
50,459 corpus weight
- CCE
CCE
50,458 corpus weight
What this shows « carénage » 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 | carénage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁe.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carénage »
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
- 1Lieu où l’on répare la carène d’un bâtiment.
- 2Action de caréner ou résultat de cette action.
- 3Carrosserie de certains véhicules permettant de diminuer la résistance à l’air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carénage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le navire est au carénage. Bassin de carénage. Gril de carénage.
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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).