cartevschartedTell them apart

Quick tell: carte is a noun, charted is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“carte” is a noun and “charted” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#23,487
“carte” frequency rank
#30,359
“charted” frequency rank
53846
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature carte charted
Definition A bill of fare; a menu. Containing charts.

Letter map: carte vs charted

Shared letters muted; letters that set carte and charted apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. carte runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against charted's 7 (CCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
carte
7 ch
charted

Grammar separator: carte vs charted

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: carte is anoun and chartedanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53846, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

carte is recorded at frequency rank #23,487, classified as anoun, pronounced /kɑː(ɹ)t/. charted is at rank #30,359, tagged as anadj.

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 53846, this pair ranks #145,718 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of carte vs charted

Shared letters: acert. Private to "carte": -. Private to "charted": dh.

"carte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "charted" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • carte ← acrte · caret · carrte · cartte · ccarte
  • charted ← cahrted · ccharted · charetd · charrted · chartde · chartedd · chartted · chatred

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "carte" and "charted" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "carte" is a noun and "charted" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "carte" or "charted" show up more?
"carte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,487 in our English list, against #30,359 for "charted". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "carte" and "charted".

  • Full dictionary entry for "carte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "charted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #145,718 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "carte" and "charted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "carte vs catty". 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 #145,718 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list