carrées
\ka.ʁe\
The verdict
“carrées” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,510
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de carré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrees · carrées · French
carrées · rank #24,510 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,510
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canettes
Nearest frequency peer: canettes (-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 « carrées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Californien
Californien
75,494 corpus weight
- candide
candide
75,493 corpus weight
- canettes
canettes
75,492 corpus weight
- carrées
carrées
75,491 corpus weight
- CE2
CE2
75,490 corpus weight
- censurer
censurer
75,489 corpus weight
What this shows « carrées » 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 | carrées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carrées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around carrées (IPA \ka.ʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de carré.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for carrées, with forms such as "acrrées", "carrees", and "carreés". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "créés", "cartes", "carrés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is carrées, spelled C-A-R-R-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de carré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carrées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les carrons, carrelets sont des sonnailles « carrées » en acier, de fabrication chamoniarde. Mots très répandus en Savoie du Sud et Vallée d’Aoste, ces termes y sont presque devenus génériques et aux Contamines on dit encarner et décarner pour « mettre » et « enlever les sonnailles », carner pour « agiter des carrons, faire du charivari ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrrées
- carrees
- carreés
- carréess
- carrése
- carées
- caréres
- ccarrées
- crarées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carrées - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).