Cardona
The verdict
“Cardona” is uncommon French (frequency #68,884 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,884
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cardona · Cardona · French
Cardona · rank #68,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,884
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carapaces
Nearest frequency peer: carapaces (-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 « Cardona »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- capharnaüm
capharnaüm
31,120 corpus weight
- carapaces
carapaces
31,118 corpus weight
- Cardona
Cardona
31,117 corpus weight
- carmina
carmina
31,116 corpus weight
- Carolus
Carolus
31,115 corpus weight
- carrare
carrare
31,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cardona » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cardona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cardona » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cardona is uncommon French at frequency #68,884 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cardona, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cardona, spelled C-A-R-D-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cardona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un 4-4-2 avec Pereira Lage au soutien d’Irvin Cardona, les Brestois se sont procuré les meilleures occasions face à Valladolid.
Sublimée par la caméra de Vincent Maël Cardona (Les Magnétiques), De grâce, minisérie franco-belge attendue cet automne sur Arte, met en scène Olivier Gourmet dans la peau de Pierre Leprieur, figure respectable du syndicat des dockeurs du Havre et patriarche d’une famille dysfonctionnelle.
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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