carex
\ka.ʁɛks\
The verdict
“carex” is uncommon French (frequency #78,231 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,231
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plantes de la famille des cypéracées appelées communément laîches, à tiges souvent de section triangulaire, à feuilles souvent coupantes, aux fleurs en épis, et dont beaucoup croissent dan...
Corpus desk
Index FR-carex · carex · French
carex · rank #78,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,231
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cardiopathie
Nearest frequency peer: cardiopathie (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « carex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cantina
cantina
21,774 corpus weight
- canut
canut
21,773 corpus weight
- cardiopathie
cardiopathie
21,771 corpus weight
- carex
carex
21,770 corpus weight
- cariste
cariste
21,769 corpus weight
- caso
caso
21,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carex is uncommon French at frequency #78,231 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de plantes de la famille des cypéracées appelées communément laîches, à tiges souvent de section triangulaire, à feuilles souvent coupantes, aux fleurs en épis, et dont beaucoup croissent dan...".
carex doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is carex, spelled C-A-R-E-X.
Definition
- 1Genre de plantes de la famille des cypéracées appelées communément laîches, à tiges souvent de section triangulaire, à feuilles souvent coupantes, aux fleurs en épis, et dont beaucoup croissent dans les lieux humides, dans les régions tempérées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les routes de tous les côtés claquent comme des longes de fouet à travers les vastes pâturages brunis de carex.
Le Diagramma était imprimé sur du papyrus de carex, qui ressemble à du papier de soie.
This word in other languages
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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