carré
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,386
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carré is anFrenchadj. It means: En forme de rectangle dont les côtés sont tous égaux. Pronounced \ka.ʁe\. It ranks #3,386 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cré and crée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ka.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carré is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,386 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for carré, with forms such as "acrré", "carre", and "caré". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cré", "crée", "case", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carré, spelled C-A-R-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En forme de rectangle dont les côtés sont tous égaux.
- 2Quadrangulaire.
- 3Qui a rapport avec le carré (nombre résultant de la multiplication d’un nombre par lui-même).
- 4Large des épaules, athlétiquement bâti, en parlant d’un homme, de sa carrure, de sa physionomie.
- 5Qui est juste et droit dans ses convictions, et qui ne s’en détourne pas.
- 6Caractérise une coupe de cheveux féminine permettant simplement de dégager le carré du visage et qui a été popularisée sous le nom de coupe à la Jeanne d’Arc.
- 7Aspect de forte tension.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrré,carre,caré,carér,ccarré,craré
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carré
Misspelling Variants of "carré"
Frequency rank: #3,386 in French
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