carie
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,453
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Destruction des os et des dents par voie d’ulcération. Pronounced \ka.ʁi\. Often confused with cri and Cré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,453 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for carie, with forms such as "acrie", "carei", and "ccarie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cri", "Cré", "crée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carie, spelled C-A-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Destruction des os et des dents par voie d’ulcération.
- 2Maladie analogue par ses effets à la carie des animaux. Elle consiste en une altération progressive de la substance ligneuse des arbres, suivie de ramollissement.
- 3Maladie des graines céréales dans laquelle la farine est remplacée par une poussière qui n’est autre chose que la substance d’un champignon du genre Uredo (Uredo caries).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrie,carei,ccarie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carie
Misspelling Variants of "carie"
Frequency rank: #34,453 in French
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Nearby French words
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