cardia
\kaʁ.dja\
The verdict
“cardia” is uncommon French (frequency #97,759 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,759
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orifice supérieur de l’estomac avec l’œsophage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardia · cardia · French
cardia · rank #97,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,759
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carbonisation
Nearest frequency peer: carbonisation (-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 « cardia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caneton
caneton
2,246 corpus weight
- caniculaires
caniculaires
2,244 corpus weight
- carbonisati…
carbonisation
2,243 corpus weight
- cardia
cardia
2,242 corpus weight
- Carrache
Carrache
2,241 corpus weight
- carrousels
carrousels
2,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cardia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.dja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cardia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cardia is uncommon French at frequency #97,759 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.dja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orifice supérieur de l’estomac avec l’œsophage.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cardia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cardia, spelled C-A-R-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Orifice supérieur de l’estomac avec l’œsophage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cardia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cardia a suscité beaucoup d’attention depuis une dizaine d'années du fait de l’augmentation de la fréquence du cancer dans cette région, face à une diminution concomitante des cancers fundiques et antraux de l’estomac.
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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