Which to use
“carrer” is a verb and “Carrère” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #48,969
- “carrer” frequency rank
- #36,295
- “Carrère” frequency rank
- 85264
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | carrer | Carrère |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Donner une figure carrée, rendre carré. | Nom de famille. |
Letter map: carrer vs Carrère
Shared letters muted; letters that set carrer and Carrère apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. carrer runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against Carrère's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for carrer / Carrère
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: carrer is averb and Carrèreaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85264, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
carrer is recorded at frequency rank #48,969, classified as averb, pronounced \ka.ʁe\. Carrère is at rank #36,295, tagged as aname.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 85264, this pair ranks #11,620 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of carrer vs Carrère
Shared letters: acer. Private to "carrer": -. Private to "Carrère": è.
"carrer" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "Carrère" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- carrer ← acrrer · carer · carerr · carrerr · carrre · ccarrer · crarer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "carrer" and "Carrère" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "carrer" or "Carrère"?
Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "carrer" and "Carrère".
- Full dictionary entry for "carrer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "Carrère" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #11,620 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "carrer" and "Carrère" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "carrer vs carrez". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #11,620 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.