cardinals
\kaɾ.ði.ˈnals\
The verdict
“cardinals” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,202
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cardinal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardinals · cardinals · French
cardinals · rank #39,202 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,202
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caractérisant
Nearest frequency peer: caractérisant (-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 « cardinals »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caleçons
caleçons
60,803 corpus weight
- camionneur
camionneur
60,802 corpus weight
- canevas
canevas
60,801 corpus weight
- caractérisa…
caractérisant
60,800 corpus weight
- cardinals
cardinals
60,799 corpus weight
- censeur
censeur
60,798 corpus weight
What this shows « cardinals » 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 | cardinals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaɾ.ði.ˈnals\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cardinals »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cardinals (IPA \kaɾ.ði.ˈnals\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,202 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cardinal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cardinals, with forms such as "acrdinals", "cadrinals", and "carddinals". 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, "cardinaux", "cardinal", "cardinale", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cardinals, spelled C-A-R-D-I-N-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cardinal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrdinals
- cadrinals
- carddinals
- cardianls
- cardinalls
- cardinalss
- cardinasl
- cardinlas
- cardinnals
- cardnials
- caridnals
- carrdinals
- ccardinals
- cradinals
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cardinals - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).