carrières
\ka.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“carrières” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,351
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carrieres · carrières · French
carrières · rank #8,351 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,351
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calibre
Nearest frequency peer: calibre (-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 « carrières »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Burkina
Burkina
91,653 corpus weight
- cadavres
cadavres
91,652 corpus weight
- calibre
calibre
91,651 corpus weight
- carrières
carrières
91,650 corpus weight
- Catalogne
Catalogne
91,649 corpus weight
- chanté
chanté
91,648 corpus weight
What this shows « carrières » 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 | carrières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « carrières »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around carrières (IPA \ka.ʁjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,351 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de carrière.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for carrières, with forms such as "acrrières", "carirères", and "carières". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Corbières", "charnières", "carrier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 carrières, spelled C-A-R-R-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carrière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carrières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce que nous exigeons aujourd’hui pour certaines carrières, nos pères l’exigeaient pour l’exercice d'un métier, et ils n’accordaient le titre de maître qu’à celui qui avait présenté son chef-d’œuvre devant le conseil du métier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrrières
- carirères
- carières
- carrieres
- carrirèes
- carrièers
- carrièress
- carrièrres
- carrièrse
- carrèires
- ccarrières
- crarières
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carrières - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).