carte de téléphone
\kaʁt də te.le.fɔn\
The verdict
“carte de téléphone” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Carte prépayée permettant de téléphoner depuis une cabine téléphonique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carte de téléphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁt də te.le.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carte de téléphone” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carte de téléphone is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁt də te.le.fɔn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Carte prépayée permettant de téléphoner depuis une cabine téléphonique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carte de téléphone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carte de téléphone, spelled C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carte prépayée permettant de téléphoner depuis une cabine téléphonique.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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