cardboard
\ˈkɑːd.bɔːd\
The verdict
“cardboard” is uncommon French (frequency #86,517 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,517
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carton, papier robuste composé de plusieurs feuilles ou de pâte à papier pressée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardboard · cardboard · French
cardboard · rank #86,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,517
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carburation
Nearest frequency peer: carburation (-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 « cardboard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caravanséra…
caravansérail
13,486 corpus weight
- carburation
carburation
13,485 corpus weight
- cardboard
cardboard
13,484 corpus weight
- cardiomyopa…
cardiomyopathie
13,483 corpus weight
- caribéen
caribéen
13,482 corpus weight
- carmélite
carmélite
13,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cardboard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardboard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɑːd.bɔːd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cardboard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cardboard is uncommon French at frequency #86,517 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɑːd.bɔːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Carton, papier robuste composé de plusieurs feuilles ou de pâte à papier pressée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cardboard, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cardboard, spelled C-A-R-D-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Carton, papier robuste composé de plusieurs feuilles ou de pâte à papier pressée.
Synonyms
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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