cartable
\kaʁ.tabl\
The verdict
“cartable” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,332
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sac d’écolier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartable · cartable · French
cartable · rank #32,332 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,332
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cantiques
Nearest frequency peer: cantiques (-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 « cartable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cambrioler
cambrioler
67,672 corpus weight
- cantique
cantique
67,671 corpus weight
- cantiques
cantiques
67,670 corpus weight
- cartable
cartable
67,669 corpus weight
- cartilage
cartilage
67,668 corpus weight
- cendrier
cendrier
67,666 corpus weight
What this shows « cartable » 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 | cartable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cartable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cartable (IPA \kaʁ.tabl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,332 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cartable, with forms such as "acrtable", "caratble", and "carrtable". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "charitable", "capable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cartable, spelled C-A-R-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sac d’écolier.
- 2Reliure munie d’anneaux fixés sur l’intérieur du dos, qui permettent d’y insérer et d’en extraire des feuilles perforées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cartable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[il] tenait sur ses genoux le cartable du collégien, un vrai portefeuille de ministre en chagrin marron.
Mon cartable giberne, en tirant mes épaules en arrière, me faisait une poitrine avantageuse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrtable
- caratble
- carrtable
- cartabble
- cartabel
- cartablle
- cartalbe
- cartbale
- carttable
- catrable
- ccartable
- cratable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cartable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).