Caribbean
\ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən\
The verdict
“Caribbean” is uncommon French (frequency #51,947 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,947
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caraïbes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caribbean · Caribbean · French
Caribbean · rank #51,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,947
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carcinome
Nearest frequency peer: carcinome (-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 « Caribbean »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- captivante
captivante
48,057 corpus weight
- carat
carat
48,056 corpus weight
- carcinome
carcinome
48,055 corpus weight
- Caribbean
Caribbean
48,054 corpus weight
- carrossier
carrossier
48,052 corpus weight
- casbah
casbah
48,051 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Caribbean » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caribbean |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Caribbean » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Caribbean is uncommon French at frequency #51,947 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caraïbes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Caribbean, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Caribbean, spelled C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Caraïbes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Caribbean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
According to the study, the road death rate in the Americas fell by 9.37% between 2010 and 2021, reflecting the slow pace of progress, with only nine countries managing to reduce the number of deaths. At sub-regional level, North America and the Caribbean saw an increase in mortality rates. By contrast, the Southern Cone and the Andean zone recorded signi…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).