carie

/\ka.ʁi\/ noun

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.

Key facts for carie
PropertyValue
Headwordcarie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#34,453
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Destruction des os et des dents par voie d’ulcération.
  2. 2
    Maladie analogue par ses effets à la carie des animaux. Elle consiste en une altération progressive de la substance ligneuse des arbres, suivie de ramollissement.
  3. 3
    Maladie 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).

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acrie,carei,ccarie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carie

Misspelling Variants of "carie"

acrie5carei5ccarie6
Misspelling Variants of "carie"

Frequency rank: #34,453 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carie"?
"carie" is spelled C-A-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁi\.
What does "carie" mean?
As a noun, "carie" means: Destruction des os et des dents par voie d’ulcération.
What words are commonly confused with "carie"?
"carie" is commonly confused with "cri", "Cré", "crée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carie" is \ka.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carie" come from?
"carie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.