carrière
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,020
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
carrière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Champ de courses : espace fermé de barrières et disposé pour toute sorte de courses, principalement pour les courses à cheval ou en char. Pronounced \ka.ʁjɛʁ\. It ranks #1,020 in French word frequency. Often confused with cartier and carrure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carrière is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,020 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for carrière, with forms such as "acrrière", "carirère", and "carière". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "cartier", "carrure", "charrier", 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 carrière, spelled C-A-R-R-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Champ de courses : espace fermé de barrières et disposé pour toute sorte de courses, principalement pour les courses à cheval ou en char.
- 2L’étendue de terrain où l’on peut faire courir un cheval sans qu’il perde haleine.
- 3Espace de dimensions réduites.
- 4Le cours de la vie, le temps qu’on exerce un emploi ou une charge.
- 5Profession que l’on embrasse, études auxquelles on se livre ou entreprises où l’on s’engage.
- 6La carrière diplomatique (souvent écrit avec une initiale majuscule).
- 7Le mouvement périodique des astres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrrière,carirère,carière,carriere,carrirèe,carrièer,carrièrre,carrèire,ccarrière,crarière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carrière
Misspelling Variants of "carrière"
Frequency rank: #1,020 in French
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