Karine
\ka.ʁin\
The verdict
“Karine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,964
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-karine · Karine · French
Karine · rank #14,964 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,964
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH juridictions
Nearest frequency peer: juridictions (-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 « Karine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jetés
jetés
85,039 corpus weight
- juridictions
juridictions
85,038 corpus weight
- Karine
Karine
85,037 corpus weight
- lice
lice
85,036 corpus weight
- licorne
licorne
85,035 corpus weight
- Lorenzo
Lorenzo
85,034 corpus weight
What this shows « Karine » 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 | Karine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Karine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Karine (IPA \ka.ʁin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,964 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Karine, with forms such as "akrine", "kairne", and "karien". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Katie", "kyrie", "karting", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Karine, spelled K-A-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Karine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le luthier sera accompagné de Karine Salmieri, artiste plasticienne.
La conférence de presse des trois maires, François Dagnaud, Bertrand Kern (PS), de Pantin, et Karine Franclet (UDI), d'Aubervilliers, avait pourtant bien commencé, jeudi, de l’autre côté du mur qui sépare Pantin du site de Forceval.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akrine
- kairne
- karien
- karinne
- karnie
- karrine
- kkarine
- kraine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Karine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).