carrera

\ka.ʁə.ʁa\

/\ka.ʁə.ʁa\/ verb

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The verdict

“carrera” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,356
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de carrer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carrera · carrera · French

carrera · rank #44,356 · 8 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,356
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH carmélites

Nearest frequency peer: carmélites (-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 « carrera »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « carrera » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

carrera vs carrés
57% similar
carrera vs carter
71% similar
carrera vs créera
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for carrera
PropertyValue
Headwordcarrera
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ka.ʁə.ʁa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#44,356
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carrera »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).carrerase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « carmélites » (#44,355), « carène » (#44,357), « Castorama » (#44,358). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « carrera » est au #44,356. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around carrera (IPA \ka.ʁə.ʁa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de carrer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for carrera, with forms such as "acrrera", "carera", and "carerra". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "carrés", "carter", "créera", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is carrera, spelled C-A-R-R-E-R-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du futur de carrer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acrrera
  • carera
  • carerra
  • carrear
  • carrerra
  • carrrea
  • ccarrera
  • crarera

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carrera - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acrrera2carera1carerra2carrear2carrerra1carrrea2ccarrera1crarera2
Edit distance from "carrera"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carrera"?
"carrera" is spelled C-A-R-R-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁə.ʁa\.
What does "carrera" mean?
As a verb, "carrera" means: Troisième personne du singulier du futur de carrer.
What words are commonly confused with "carrera"?
"carrera" is commonly confused with "carrés", "carter", "créera". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carrera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carrera" is \ka.ʁə.ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carrera" come from?
"carrera" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carrera", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chargez#44,365béliers#44,345Claudie#44,374codéine#44,377

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

auvent8 variantsassures8 variantscurly8 variantsdengue8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list