cardon
\kaʁ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“cardon” is uncommon French (frequency #63,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,601
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante potagère (Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. cardunculus), de la même espèce que l’artichaut, et dont les feuilles sont comestibles. — Cynara cardunculus (wikispecies)
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardon · cardon · French
cardon · rank #63,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,601
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH captant
Nearest frequency peer: captant (-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 « cardon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camoufle
camoufle
36,403 corpus weight
- canvas
canvas
36,402 corpus weight
- captant
captant
36,401 corpus weight
- cardon
cardon
36,400 corpus weight
- cari
cari
36,399 corpus weight
- carnavals
carnavals
36,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cardon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cardon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cardon is uncommon French at frequency #63,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante potagère (Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. cardunculus), de la même espèce que l’artichaut, et dont les feuilles sont comestibles. — Cynara cardunculus (wikispecies)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cardon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cardon, spelled C-A-R-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Plante potagère (Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. cardunculus), de la même espèce que l’artichaut, et dont les feuilles sont comestibles. — Cynara cardunculus (wikispecies)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cardon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le père avait commencé depuis plus d’une heure de buter des cardons.
En gratin, arrosé ou non de moëlle fondante, le cardon est au cœur des tables de fête.
Synonyms
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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