cargo
\kaʁ.ɡo\
The verdict
“cargo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,532
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire destiné à transporter des marchandises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cargo · cargo · French
cargo · rank #13,532 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,532
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caramel
Nearest frequency peer: caramel (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cargo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Calédonie
Calédonie
86,473 corpus weight
- caractérisée
caractérisée
86,471 corpus weight
- caramel
caramel
86,470 corpus weight
- cargo
cargo
86,469 corpus weight
- carotte
carotte
86,468 corpus weight
- carreaux
carreaux
86,467 corpus weight
What this shows « cargo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cargo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cargo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cargo (IPA \kaʁ.ɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,532 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cargo, with forms such as "acrgo", "cagro", and "carggo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cro", "Carl", "caro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cargo, spelled C-A-R-G-O.
Definition
- 1Navire destiné à transporter des marchandises.
- 2Véhicule destiné à transporter des marchandises (en général dans un nom composé).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cargo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les glaces de la mer Blanche n’avaient que peu de rapports avec celles de la banquise, et les cargos étaient précédés et convoyés par de remarquables « brise-glaces ».
Le bulbe opalin déchirait la pellicule liquide, des floches d'écume chatouillaient les flancs du cargo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrgo
- cagro
- carggo
- carog
- carrgo
- ccargo
- crago
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cargo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).