cardine
\kaʁ.din\
The verdict
“cardine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson plat osseux marin, voisin des soles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardine · cardine · French
cardine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.din\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cardine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson plat osseux marin, voisin des soles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cardine, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cardine, spelled C-A-R-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Poisson plat osseux marin, voisin des soles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cardine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les principales captures en volume et en valeur ont été le merlu, la cardine, la baudroie et le chinchard.
On donne parfois à la cardine le nom de fausse limande, ou même de limande tout court, au risque de provoquer des confusions. Certes les cardines ressemblent beaucoup à des limandes, mais avec une différence essentielle : elles sont gauchères, alors que les limandes sont droitières.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.