carnet
\kaʁ.nɛ\
The verdict
“carnet” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,036
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit livre de comptes ou de notes que l’on porte avec soi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carnet · carnet · French
carnet · rank #7,036 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,036
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH buzz
Nearest frequency peer: buzz (-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 « carnet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ba
Ba
92,968 corpus weight
- buzz
buzz
92,966 corpus weight
- carnet
carnet
92,965 corpus weight
- climatiques
climatiques
92,964 corpus weight
- compagne
compagne
92,963 corpus weight
- concession
concession
92,962 corpus weight
What this shows « carnet » 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 | carnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carnet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around carnet (IPA \kaʁ.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,036 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for carnet, with forms such as "acrnet", "canret", and "carent". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cart", "carte", "carré", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is carnet, spelled C-A-R-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit livre de comptes ou de notes que l’on porte avec soi.
- 2Livret d’épargne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carnet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma mère inscrivait sur un carnet la récolte de chacun, payait ceux qui le demandaient, […].
Le carnet d’un négociant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrnet
- canret
- carent
- carnett
- carnnet
- carnte
- carrnet
- ccarnet
- cranet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carnet - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carnet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).