carène
French, noun
carène is spelled C-A-R-È-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,377th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carène is a French feminine noun meaning “hull; keel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, caréné is a different word: “ducted”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie d’un navire, ensemble des lignes longitudinales et transversales qui forment le dessin de la coque…”.
What does carène mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehull; keel
adjective
- 1
ducted
verb
- 1
past participle of caréner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie d’un navire, ensemble des lignes longitudinales et transversales qui forment le dessin de la coque dans sa partie immergée (la quille et les flancs du navire jusqu’à la ligne de flottaison). 2. Action de caréner. 3. Le navire lui-même. 4. Pétale inférieur des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses) constituée de deux pétales fusionnés et rappelant la carène d’un bateau.
adjective: 1. Qui rappelle la forme d’une carène.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of carène
- carènes plural
- carénée feminine
- carénés masculine plural
- carénées feminine plural
- carêne
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is carène in French?
carène appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).