carrément
\ka.ʁe.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“carrément” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,387
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière carrée, à angles droits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrement · carrément · French
carrément · rank #3,387 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,387
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carré
Nearest frequency peer: carré (-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 « carrément »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boutique
boutique
96,617 corpus weight
- canon
canon
96,616 corpus weight
- carré
carré
96,615 corpus weight
- carrément
carrément
96,614 corpus weight
- casser
casser
96,613 corpus weight
- CH
CH
96,612 corpus weight
What this shows « carrément » 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 | carrément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁe.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carrément »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around carrément (IPA \ka.ʁe.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #3,387 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for carrément, with forms such as "acrrément", "carrement", and "carrméent". 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, "chèrement", "clairement", "chargement", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is carrément, spelled C-A-R-R-É-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière carrée, à angles droits.
- 2De la manière de quelqu'un qui se carre.
- 3D’une manière décidée.
- 4Absolument ; fermement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carrément appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les habitants se contentent de les entasser carrément et de recouvrir le tout d’un couvercle de tuiles rouges ou jaunes dont les découpures contrariées forment un feston d’un effet assez gracieux.
Les tours, espacées entre elles de 25 à 30 mètres environ, sont cylindriques à l’extérieur, terminées carrément du côté de la ville et réunies entre elles par de hautes courtines […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrrément
- carrement
- carrméent
- carréemnt
- carrémennt
- carrémentt
- carrémetn
- carrémment
- carrémnet
- carément
- carérment
- ccarrément
- crarément
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carrément - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).