Icare
\i.kaʁ\
The verdict
“Icare” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,805
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fils de Dédale ; négligeant les avis de son père, il s’éleva trop haut dans les airs ; la chaleur du soleil fondit la cire qui attachait ses ailes ; l’imprudent tomba et périt dans la mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-icare · Icare · French
Icare · rank #40,805 · 5 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,805
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH héritées
Nearest frequency peer: héritées (-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 « Icare »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Huppert
Huppert
59,199 corpus weight
- Huxley
Huxley
59,198 corpus weight
- héritées
héritées
59,197 corpus weight
- Icare
Icare
59,196 corpus weight
- imaginable
imaginable
59,195 corpus weight
- imitent
imitent
59,194 corpus weight
What this shows « Icare » 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 | Icare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \i.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Icare »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Icare (IPA \i.kaʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,805 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Icare, with forms such as "iacre", "icaer", and "icarre". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ice", "ire", "ivre", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Icare, spelled I-C-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fils de Dédale ; négligeant les avis de son père, il s’éleva trop haut dans les airs ; la chaleur du soleil fondit la cire qui attachait ses ailes ; l’imprudent tomba et périt dans la mer.
- 2Personne à qui de trop hautes prétentions sont funestes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Icare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heureux le poëte insensible ! Son luth n’est point baigné de pleurs ; Son enthousiasme paisible N’a point ces tragiques fureurs. Et ce pusillanime Icare, Trahi par l’aile de Pindare, Ne retombe jamais du ciel.
Quelle chute honteuse ! Icare tombant du haut du ciel n’en fit pas une plus profonde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iacre
- icaer
- icarre
- iccare
- icrae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Icare - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).