caricature

\ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ\

/\ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“caricature” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,121
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Image satirique dans laquelle l’artiste représente d’une manière grotesque, bouffonne, les personnes qu’il veut tourner en dérision.

Corpus desk

Index FR-caricature · caricature · French

caricature · rank #12,121 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,121
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Carcassonne

Nearest frequency peer: Carcassonne (-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 « caricature »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « caricature » 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).

caricature vs caricatures
91% similar
caricature vs caricatural
82% similar
caricature vs caricaturale
83% similar

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

Key facts for caricature
PropertyValue
Headwordcaricature
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#12,121
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caricature »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).caricaturese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Carcassonne » (#12,120), « cascade » (#12,122), « capitales » (#12,119). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « caricature » est au #12,121. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around caricature (IPA \ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,121 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for caricature, with forms such as "acricature", "caircature", and "carciature". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "caricatures", "caricatural", "caricaturale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caricature, spelled C-A-R-I-C-A-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Image satirique dans laquelle l’artiste représente d’une manière grotesque, bouffonne, les personnes qu’il veut tourner en dérision.
  2. 2
    Portrait grossier ou peu flatteur d'un personnage, souvent en parlant d’ouvrages littéraires.
  3. 3
    Personne ridiculement accoutrée.
  4. 4
    Représentation outrée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La caricature est une arme très dangereuse. Les Français excellent dans la caricature.
  2. Yohanân ressemblait à une caricature de prophète : trop maigre, trop barbu, trop hirsute, couvert d'immondes peaux de chameau autour desquelles bruissaient et voltigeaient des mouches attirées par la puanteur.

Synonyms

portrait-charge

This word in other languages

caricature(English)Karikatur(Deutsch)caricatura(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acricature
  • caircature
  • carciature
  • cariacture
  • caricatrue
  • caricatture
  • caricatuer
  • caricaturre
  • caricautre
  • cariccature
  • carictaure
  • carricature
  • ccaricature
  • craicature

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caricature - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

acricature2caircature2carciature2cariacture2caricatrue2caricatture1caricatuer2caricaturre1
Edit distance from "caricature"

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 "caricature"?
"caricature" is spelled C-A-R-I-C-A-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ\.
What does "caricature" mean?
As a noun, "caricature" means: Image satirique dans laquelle l’artiste représente d’une manière grotesque, bouffonne, les personnes qu’il veut tourner en dérision.
What words are commonly confused with "caricature"?
"caricature" is commonly confused with "caricatures", "caricatural", "caricaturale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "caricature"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "caricature" is \ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "caricature" come from?
"caricature" 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 "caricature", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

autorisées#12,108convaincue#12,136déterminés#12,148Accessoire#12,091

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

conservée14 variantscontactez14 variantsterritorial14 variantshonoraires14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list