caries
\ka.ʁi\
The verdict
“caries” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,190. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,190
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caries · caries · French
caries · rank #38,190 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,190
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capituler
Nearest frequency peer: capituler (-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 « caries »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Caligula
Caligula
61,815 corpus weight
- calmée
calmée
61,814 corpus weight
- Camden
Camden
61,813 corpus weight
- capituler
capituler
61,812 corpus weight
- caries
caries
61,811 corpus weight
- Catane
Catane
61,809 corpus weight
What this shows « caries » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caries »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around caries (IPA \ka.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,190 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de carie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for caries, with forms such as "acries", "caires", and "careis". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cris", "Crie", "carte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 caries, spelled C-A-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acries
- caires
- careis
- cariess
- carise
- carries
- ccaries
- craies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caries - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).