caricatural

\ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\

/\ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\/ adj

The verdict

“caricatural” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,293
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient de la caricature.

Corpus desk

Index FR-caricatural · caricatural · French

caricatural · rank #36,293 · 16 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,293
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH capone

Nearest frequency peer: capone (-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 « caricatural »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « caricatural » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

caricatural vs caricature
82% similar
caricatural vs caricatures
82% similar
caricatural vs caricaturale
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for caricatural
PropertyValue
Headwordcaricatural
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\
Letters11
Frequency rank#36,293
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caricatural »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).caricaturalse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « capone » (#36,292), « caritatif » (#36,294), « cannibales » (#36,291). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « caricatural » est au #36,293. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around caricatural (IPA \ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,293 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui tient de la caricature.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for caricatural, with forms such as "acricatural", "caircatural", and "carciatural". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "caricature", "caricatures", "caricaturale", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is caricatural, spelled C-A-R-I-C-A-T-U-R-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui tient de la caricature.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how caricatural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous sommes nombreux à nous être inspirés de cette approche des relations franco-allemandes et de l’Europe. Cela vaut également pour un autre champ de vos activités: l’explication de l’Allemagne et de la France aux voisins respectifs. Heureusement, la lutte inlassable que vous menez depuis plus d’un demi-siècle contre les images caricaturales ou carrément…
  2. Comme l’emoji, le gif peut servir de réaction à un message autant que de signal d'un double sens. Il a une fonction illustrative, mimant de façon caricaturale et hyperbolique nos attitudes et notre état d'esprit.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acricatural
  • caircatural
  • carciatural
  • cariactural
  • caricatrual
  • caricattural
  • caricatuarl
  • caricaturall
  • caricaturla
  • caricaturral
  • caricautral
  • cariccatural
  • carictaural
  • carricatural
  • ccaricatural
  • craicatural

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caricatural - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acricatural2caircatural2carciatural2cariactural2caricatrual2caricattural1caricatuarl2caricaturall1
Edit distance from "caricatural"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "caricatural"?
"caricatural" is spelled C-A-R-I-C-A-T-U-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\.
What does "caricatural" mean?
As an adjective, "caricatural" means: Qui tient de la caricature.
What words are commonly confused with "caricatural"?
"caricatural" is commonly confused with "caricature", "caricatures", "caricaturale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "caricatural"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "caricatural" is \ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "caricatural" come from?
"caricatural" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caricatural", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list