cardo
The verdict
“cardo” is uncommon French (frequency #90,515 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,515
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rue dans l’axe nord-sud, d’une ville romaine. Utilisé généralement pour désigner le cardo maximus c'est à dire la rue principale et centrale orientée nord-sud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cardo” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cardo is uncommon French at frequency #90,515 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rue dans l’axe nord-sud, d’une ville romaine. Utilisé généralement pour désigner le cardo maximus c'est à dire la rue principale et centrale orientée nord-sud.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cardo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cardo, spelled C-A-R-D-O.
Definition
- 1Rue dans l’axe nord-sud, d’une ville romaine. Utilisé généralement pour désigner le cardo maximus c'est à dire la rue principale et centrale orientée nord-sud.
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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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Using “cardo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.