cardinaux
\kaʁ.di.no\
The verdict
“cardinaux” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,217
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cardinal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardinaux · cardinaux · French
cardinaux · rank #14,217 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,217
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cachées
Nearest frequency peer: cachées (-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 « cardinaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Burundi
Burundi
85,787 corpus weight
- Béatrice
Béatrice
85,786 corpus weight
- cachées
cachées
85,785 corpus weight
- cardinaux
cardinaux
85,784 corpus weight
- cerner
cerner
85,783 corpus weight
- chanoine
chanoine
85,782 corpus weight
What this shows « cardinaux » 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 | cardinaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaʁ.di.no\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cardinaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cardinaux (IPA \kaʁ.di.no\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,217 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cardinal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cardinaux, with forms such as "acrdinaux", "cadrinaux", and "carddinaux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cardinal", "cardinals", "cardinale", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cardinaux, spelled C-A-R-D-I-N-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cardinal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cardinaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les signes cardinaux nous inclinent, avec une grande facilité, dans les voies les plus diverses. Tout ce qu’ils demandent, c’est de s’exprimer : la direction dans laquelle cette activité s’exprime est secondaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrdinaux
- cadrinaux
- carddinaux
- cardianux
- cardinauxx
- cardinaxu
- cardinnaux
- cardinuax
- cardniaux
- caridnaux
- carrdinaux
- ccardinaux
- cradinaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cardinaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).