cardo
The verdict
“cardo” is uncommon French (frequency #90,515 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,515
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardo · cardo · French
cardo · rank #90,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,515
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cardif
Nearest frequency peer: Cardif (-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 « cardo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carabinier
carabinier
9,491 corpus weight
- carbet
carbet
9,489 corpus weight
- Cardif
Cardif
9,487 corpus weight
- cardo
cardo
9,486 corpus weight
- cartilagine…
cartilagineux
9,483 corpus weight
- Cathelineau
Cathelineau
9,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cardo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « cardo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cardo is uncommon French at frequency #90,515 among 8,609 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cardo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fouilles révèlent en effet que certaines rues reprennent un tracé plus ancien. C’est le cas du cardo, l’axe central nord-sud qui traverse la cité, correspondant aux actuelles rues Saint-Martin, sur la rive droite, et Saint-Jacques, sur la rive gauche.
Lutèce grandit autour d’un premier axe, le cardo maximus romain, la voie principale de la ville, l’axe vertical reliant par deux ponts l’île de la Cité aux rive du fleuve.
Antonyms
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); 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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