scarabée
\ska.ʁa.be\
The verdict
“scarabée” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #37,062 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #37,062
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Insectes coléoptères dont les ailes sont recouvertes par des élytres ; particulièrement ceux qui ont des antennes terminées par plusieurs feuillets.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scarabée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ska.ʁa.be\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scarabée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for scarabée is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ska.ʁa.be\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,062 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for scarabée, with forms such as "csarabée", "sacrabée", and "scaarbée". 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is scarabée, spelled S-C-A-R-A-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Insectes coléoptères dont les ailes sont recouvertes par des élytres ; particulièrement ceux qui ont des antennes terminées par plusieurs feuillets.
- 2Pierre gravée portant l’empreinte du scarabée sacré chez les Égyptiens.
- 3Courbe décrite par le projeté orthogonal d’un point fixe, pris sur la bissectrice de deux droites rectangulaires, sur la droite porteuse d’un segment dont les extrémités glissent le long des deux droites rectangulaires.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: csarabée,sacrabée,scaarbée,scarabbée,scarabee,scarabeé,scaraébe,scarbaée,scarrabée,sccarabée,scraabée,sscarabée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scarabée - 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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Using “scarabée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-C-A-R-A-B-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ska.ʁa.be\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.