cardigan
\kaʁ.di.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“cardigan” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,217
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Veste tricotée, boutonnée par devant, sans col.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardigan · cardigan · French
cardigan · rank #42,217 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,217
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capella
Nearest frequency peer: capella (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cardigan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- campagnard
campagnard
57,787 corpus weight
- cantonnée
cantonnée
57,786 corpus weight
- capella
capella
57,785 corpus weight
- cardigan
cardigan
57,784 corpus weight
- cascadeur
cascadeur
57,783 corpus weight
- cassait
cassait
57,782 corpus weight
What this shows « cardigan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardigan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.di.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cardigan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cardigan (IPA \kaʁ.di.ɡɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,217 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Veste tricotée, boutonnée par devant, sans col.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cardigan, with forms such as "acrdigan", "cadrigan", and "carddigan". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cardin", "cardinal", "carignan", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cardigan, spelled C-A-R-D-I-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Veste tricotée, boutonnée par devant, sans col.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cardigan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle portait une jupe de tweed et un cardigan en shetland.
Le cardigan : impeccablement réalisé dans une matière raffinée, [74% acétate et 26% polyamide], fraîche, chatoyante, de belle tenue et facile à entretenir.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrdigan
- cadrigan
- carddigan
- cardgian
- cardiagn
- cardigann
- cardiggan
- cardigna
- caridgan
- carrdigan
- ccardigan
- cradigan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cardigan - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cardigan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).