carotide
\ka.ʁɔ.tid\
The verdict
“carotide” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,656. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,656
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux deux principales artères qui conduisent le sang au cerveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carotide · carotide · French
carotide · rank #40,656 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,656
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carlisle
Nearest frequency peer: Carlisle (-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 « carotide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- canin
canin
59,349 corpus weight
- cantatrice
cantatrice
59,348 corpus weight
- Carlisle
Carlisle
59,346 corpus weight
- carotide
carotide
59,345 corpus weight
- carthaginois
carthaginois
59,344 corpus weight
- catimini
catimini
59,342 corpus weight
What this shows « carotide » 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 | carotide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔ.tid\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carotide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around carotide (IPA \ka.ʁɔ.tid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux deux principales artères qui conduisent le sang au cerveau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for carotide, with forms such as "acrotide", "caortide", and "caroitde". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "carotte", "caroline", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is carotide, spelled C-A-R-O-T-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux deux principales artères qui conduisent le sang au cerveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carotide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Effaré, mais lucide encore, je lui mis la main sur le cœur… Il n’y avait rien ! rien au pouls, rien aux tempes, rien aux artères carotides, rien nulle part… que la mort qui était partout, et déjà avec son épouvantable rigidité !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrotide
- caortide
- caroitde
- carotdie
- carotidde
- carotied
- carottide
- carrotide
- cartoide
- ccarotide
- craotide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carotide - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).