Carle
The verdict
“Carle” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,049. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,049
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carle · Carle · French
Carle · rank #46,049 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,049
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carpes
Nearest frequency peer: carpes (+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 « Carle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cai
cai
53,956 corpus weight
- Callie
Callie
53,955 corpus weight
- Carle
Carle
53,952 corpus weight
- carpes
carpes
53,951 corpus weight
- cer
cer
53,949 corpus weight
- champagnes
champagnes
53,948 corpus weight
What this shows « Carle » 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 | Carle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Carle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Carle, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,049 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Carle, with forms such as "acrle", "carel", and "carlle". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clé", "Cré", "crée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Carle, spelled C-A-R-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Carle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La technologie a irrigué l’ensemble des pans de l’économie, poursuit Louis Carle, l’autre cofondateur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrle
- carel
- carlle
- carrle
- ccarle
- crale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Carle - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).