CarrèrevscarrureWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Carrère is a name, carrure is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Carrère” is a name and “carrure” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,295
“Carrère” frequency rank
#26,995
“carrure” frequency rank
63290
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Carrère carrure
Definition Nom de famille. Largeur du dos à l’endroit des épaules.

Letter map: Carrère vs carrure

Shared letters muted; letters that set Carrère and carrure apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. Carrère and carrure follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
Carrère
7 ch
carrure

Role in the sentence - Carrère and carrure

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Carrère is aname and carrureanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - è in “Carrère” becomes u in “carrure”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63290, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Carrère is recorded at frequency rank #36,295, classified as aname. carrure is at rank #26,995, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ka.ʁyʁ\.

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 63290, this pair ranks #82,733 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Carrère vs carrure

Shared letters: acer. Private to "Carrère": è. Private to "carrure": u.

"Carrère" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "carrure" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • carrure ← acrrure · carrrue · carruer · carrurre · carure · carurre · ccarrure · crarure

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Carrère" and "carrure" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Carrère" is a name and "carrure" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Carrère" vs "carrure" - which ranks higher?
"carrure" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,995 in our French list, against #36,295 for "Carrère". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Carrère" and "carrure". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Carrère" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "carrure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #82,733 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Carrère" and "carrure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Carrère 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 #82,733 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list