cartables
\kaʁ.tabl\
The verdict
“cartables” is uncommon French (frequency #66,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,570
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cartable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartables · cartables · French
cartables · rank #66,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,570
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH casal
Nearest frequency peer: casal (+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 « cartables »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cardamome
cardamome
33,436 corpus weight
- caressa
caressa
33,435 corpus weight
- caribéenne
caribéenne
33,433 corpus weight
- cartables
cartables
33,431 corpus weight
- casal
casal
33,430 corpus weight
- cassures
cassures
33,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cartables » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cartables » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cartables is uncommon French at frequency #66,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cartable.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cartables in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cartables, spelled C-A-R-T-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cartable.
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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