carpe
\kaʁp\
The verdict
“carpe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,662
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson d’eau douce, de taille moyenne, originaire d'Asie (Chine surtout), de la famille des cyprinidés (Cyprinidae), comestible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carpe · carpe · French
carpe · rank #20,662 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,662
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carcasse
Nearest frequency peer: carcasse (-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 « carpe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cadillac
Cadillac
79,342 corpus weight
- camouflage
camouflage
79,341 corpus weight
- carcasse
carcasse
79,340 corpus weight
- carpe
carpe
79,339 corpus weight
- CDC
CDC
79,337 corpus weight
- cerfs
cerfs
79,336 corpus weight
What this shows « carpe » 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 | carpe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carpe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around carpe (IPA \kaʁp\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,662 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for carpe, with forms such as "acrpe", "capre", and "carep". 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, "CPE", "Cré", "crée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is carpe, spelled C-A-R-P-E.
Definition
- 1Poisson d’eau douce, de taille moyenne, originaire d'Asie (Chine surtout), de la famille des cyprinidés (Cyprinidae), comestible.
- 2Chair cuisinée de ce poisson.
- 3Variante de carpe commune (poisson).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carpe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il pêchait parfois dans le canal situé au-dessus du moulin, alimenté par la rivière, dans les grands calmes où les rotengles, les poissons-chats et les carpes venaient se nourrir de grains concassés en balançant leurs flancs dans la lumière.
Quelques espèces de carpes dominent l’élevage des cyprinidés : les carpes chinoises (carpe argentée, carpe herbivore, carpe marbrée, carassin, carpe noire, et carpe de vase), la carpe commune, et les carpes indiennes majeures (rohu, catla et mrigal). En 1995, ces dix espèces représentaient 80 % de toutes les carpes élevées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrpe
- capre
- carep
- carppe
- carrpe
- ccarpe
- crape
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carpe - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).