carde
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,768
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
carde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nervure médiane des feuilles du cardon ou de la bette, plantes cultivées pour servir d’aliment. Pronounced \kaʁd\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carde is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁd\. Corpus data places it at rank #82,768 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for carde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 carde, spelled C-A-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nervure médiane des feuilles du cardon ou de la bette, plantes cultivées pour servir d’aliment.
- 2Nom donné à la plante elle-même.
- 3Côte, bonne à manger, des feuilles de poirée.
- 4Tête épineuse de la cardère ou chardon à foulon, qu’on employait pour carder la laine.
- 5Instrument dont on se servait pour carder les cheveux destinés à garnir une perruque ou pour nettoyer les limes encrassées.
- 6Machine garnie de chardons à foulon pour peigner le drap.
- 7Peigne de cardeur, formé d’une planchette à manche, laquelle était garnie, d’un côté, de pointes de fil d’archal très fin.
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Frequency rank: #82,768 in French
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