carnage
\kaʁ.naʒ\
The verdict
“carnage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,322
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte de tuer violemment ou en grand nombre
Corpus desk
Index FR-carnage · carnage · French
carnage · rank #15,322 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,322
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caporal
Nearest frequency peer: caporal (-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 « carnage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brutalité
brutalité
84,682 corpus weight
- bugs
bugs
84,681 corpus weight
- caporal
caporal
84,680 corpus weight
- carnage
carnage
84,679 corpus weight
- castle
castle
84,678 corpus weight
- centraux
centraux
84,677 corpus weight
What this shows « carnage » 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 | carnage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carnage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around carnage (IPA \kaʁ.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,322 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for carnage, with forms such as "acrnage", "canrage", and "carange". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "carne", "curage", "clonage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 carnage, spelled C-A-R-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Acte de tuer violemment ou en grand nombre
- 2Chair d’autres animaux dont se nourrissent les bêtes sauvages.
- 3Puanteur.
- 4Catastrophe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carnage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] je ne veux pas m’occuper de son sort plus que de celui du dernier vaurien perdu parmi les millions de bandits qui ont porté la croix sur leur épaule, et qui se sont livrés aux excès et au carnage, tout en disant qu’ils accomplissaient la volonté de Dieu.
Voilà longtemps, dit-elle, que ce grand carnage me dégoûte ; il a déjà fallu que nos deux pauvres cousins Kasper et Yokel aillent se faire casser les os en Espagne, pour cet Empereur, et maintenant il vient encore nous demander les jeunes ; il n’est pas content d’en avoir fait périr trois cent mille en Russie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrnage
- canrage
- carange
- carnaeg
- carnagge
- carngae
- carnnage
- carrnage
- ccarnage
- cranage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carnage - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).