carreaux
\ka.ʁo\
The verdict
“carreaux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,534
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carreau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carreaux · carreaux · French
carreaux · rank #13,534 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,534
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carotte
Nearest frequency peer: carotte (-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 « carreaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caramel
caramel
86,470 corpus weight
- cargo
cargo
86,469 corpus weight
- carotte
carotte
86,468 corpus weight
- carreaux
carreaux
86,467 corpus weight
- cartographie
cartographie
86,465 corpus weight
- Cazeneuve
Cazeneuve
86,464 corpus weight
What this shows « carreaux » 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 | carreaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carreaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around carreaux (IPA \ka.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de carreau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for carreaux, with forms such as "acrreaux", "careaux", and "careraux". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cerveaux", "corbeaux", "cadeaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is carreaux, spelled C-A-R-R-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carreau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carreaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il préférait la musique classique et les chemisettes à carreaux mais, pour attirer les concupiscences, il devait avoir la tenue wesh-wesh, l’allure racaille, la casquette Nike, visière retournée en prime.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrreaux
- careaux
- careraux
- carraeux
- carreauxx
- carreaxu
- carreuax
- ccarreaux
- crareaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carreaux - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carreaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).