carole
\ka.ʁɔl\
The verdict
“carole” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,338
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de danse festive et populaire, très répandue au Moyen Âge, se présentant sous forme de chaîne ouverte ou fermée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carole · carole · French
carole · rank #13,338 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,338
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canards
Nearest frequency peer: canards (-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 « carole »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bémol
bémol
86,666 corpus weight
- calcium
calcium
86,665 corpus weight
- canards
canards
86,664 corpus weight
- carole
carole
86,663 corpus weight
- charisme
charisme
86,662 corpus weight
- Charlemagne
Charlemagne
86,661 corpus weight
What this shows « carole » 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 | carole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carole »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around carole (IPA \ka.ʁɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,338 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for carole, with forms such as "acrole", "caorle", and "carloe". 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, "cole", "carte", "carré", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is carole, spelled C-A-R-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Forme de danse festive et populaire, très répandue au Moyen Âge, se présentant sous forme de chaîne ouverte ou fermée.
- 2Déambulatoire, nef contournant l’abside.
- 3Sorte de plate-bande en corniche, dans un bâtiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La carole est la danse collective la plus pratiquée à la fin du Moyen Âge. Elle se fait d’abord en cercle puis se termine en farandole, accompagnée de sauts et de chants.
Gracieuse, gracile, l’arabesque traduisait, par le hanchement des statues ou, plus librement, par des végétations foisonnantes aux marges des livres enluminés, les rites de l’élégance mondaine, qui supplantait peu à peu les rites de l’office divin. Répondant au mouvement des virolets et des caroles, aux démarches de la poursuite amoureuse, aux mille périp…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrole
- caorle
- carloe
- caroel
- carolle
- carrole
- ccarole
- craole
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carole - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).