cardamome
\kaʁ.da.mɔm\
The verdict
“cardamome” is uncommon French (frequency #66,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,565
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel de Elettaria cardamomum, plante de la famille des Zingiberaceae (Zingibéracées) dont la graine donne l’épice du même nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardamome · cardamome · French
cardamome · rank #66,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,565
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caressa
Nearest frequency peer: caressa (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cardamome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cador
cador
33,440 corpus weight
- canicules
canicules
33,438 corpus weight
- cardamome
cardamome
33,436 corpus weight
- caressa
caressa
33,435 corpus weight
- caribéenne
caribéenne
33,433 corpus weight
- cartables
cartables
33,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cardamome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardamome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.da.mɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cardamome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cardamome is uncommon French at frequency #66,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.da.mɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cardamome in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cardamome, spelled C-A-R-D-A-M-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Elettaria cardamomum, plante de la famille des Zingiberaceae (Zingibéracées) dont la graine donne l’épice du même nom.
- 2Épice extraite de la graine de cette plante, utilisée par exemple dans les currys indiens et dans l’hypocras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cardamome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma préférence alla aux escalopes poêlées à la cardamome.
On s’y presse pour y acheter lentilles, patates douces, jalebis fraîchement cuisinés, pigments de couleur, étoffes, thé, noix de coco, cardamome ou poudre de curry.
This word in other languages
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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