canton
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,013
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
canton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Certaine partie d’un pays considérée comme distincte du reste de ce pays. Pronounced \kɑ̃.tɔ̃\. It ranks #5,013 in French word frequency. Often confused with coton and caron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canton is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,013 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for canton, with forms such as "acnton", "cannton", and "canotn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coton", "caron", "catin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is canton, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Certaine partie d’un pays considérée comme distincte du reste de ce pays.
- 2Certaine partie d’un pays considérée comme distincte du reste de ce pays.
- 3Certaine partie d’un pays considérée comme distincte du reste de ce pays.
- 4Certaine partie d’un pays considérée comme distincte du reste de ce pays.
- 5Certaine partie d’un pays considérée comme distincte du reste de ce pays.
- 6Certaine partie d’un pays considérée comme distincte du reste de ce pays.
- 7Surface carrée positionnée par défaut au chef dextre de l’écu. La surface est généralement moindre que celle du franc-canton qui est lui-même moindre que le franc-quartier. Si sa position diffère de l’ordinaire, elle doit être blasonnée.
- 8Angle de l’écu où est positionné un meuble.
- 9Subdivision d’une voie ferrée servant au cantonnement, c'est-à-dire à la régulation de la circulation des trains.
- 10Section de route, généralement départementale ou communale, entretenue par un cantonnier.
- 11Quartier supérieur du guindant d’un drapeau ou pavillon. Il est donc situé contre la hampe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnton,cannton,canotn,cantno,cantonn,cantton,catnon,ccanton,cnaton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canton
Misspelling Variants of "canton"
Frequency rank: #5,013 in French
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