carex
\ka.ʁɛks\
The verdict
“carex” is uncommon French (frequency #78,231 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,231
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “carex” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carex is uncommon French at frequency #78,231 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “carex”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-E-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ʁɛks\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.