Carrington

name

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The verdict

“Carrington” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,397. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,397
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-carrington · Carrington · French

Carrington · rank #48,397 · 14 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,397
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH carolingienne

Nearest frequency peer: carolingienne (-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 « Carrington »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Carrington » 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
Key facts for Carrington
PropertyValue
HeadwordCarrington
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#48,397
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Carrington »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Carringtonse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « carolingienne » (#48,396), « casus » (#48,398), « Carnac » (#48,395). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Carrington » est au #48,397. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around Carrington, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,397 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Carrington, with forms such as "acrrington", "carington", and "carirngton". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Carrington, spelled C-A-R-R-I-N-G-T-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Carrington appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Charles Carrington.
  2. Dora Carrington.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acrrington
  • carington
  • carirngton
  • carrignton
  • carringgton
  • carringotn
  • carringtno
  • carringtonn
  • carringtton
  • carrinngton
  • carrintgon
  • carrnigton
  • ccarrington
  • crarington

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Carrington - 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.

acrrington2carington1carirngton2carrignton2carringgton1carringotn2carringtno2carringtonn1
Edit distance from "Carrington"

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 "Carrington"?
"Carrington" is spelled C-A-R-R-I-N-G-T-O-N.
What does "Carrington" mean?
As a proper noun, "Carrington" means: Nom de famille.
What are common misspellings of "Carrington"?
Common misspellings include "acrrington", "carington", "carirngton", "carrignton", "carringgton". The correct spelling is "Carrington".
What language does "Carrington" come from?
"Carrington" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list