cardinales

\kaʁ.di.nal\

/\kaʁ.di.nal\/ adj

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The verdict

“cardinales” is uncommon French (frequency #72,993 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,993
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de cardinal.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cardinales · cardinales · French

cardinales · rank #72,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,993
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH carbonée

Nearest frequency peer: carbonée (-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 « cardinales »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cardinales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cardinales
PropertyValue
Headwordcardinales
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kaʁ.di.nal\
Letters10
Frequency rank#72,993
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cardinales » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cardinalestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « carbonée » (#72,992), « canule » (#72,991), « casqué » (#72,995). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cardinales » est au #72,993. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cardinales is uncommon French at frequency #72,993 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kaʁ.di.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de cardinal.".

cardinales has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cardinales, spelled C-A-R-D-I-N-A-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de cardinal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cardinales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nul n’a synthétisé avec autant de netteté les doctrines cardinales du judaïsme pour tenter de les rapprocher de l’enseignement du philosophe stagirite.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cardinales"?
"cardinales" is spelled C-A-R-D-I-N-A-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.di.nal\.
What does "cardinales" mean?
As an adjective, "cardinales" means: Féminin pluriel de cardinal.
How do you pronounce "cardinales"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cardinales" is \kaʁ.di.nal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cardinales" come from?
"cardinales" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cardinales", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list