cartel
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,878
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cartel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Écrit par lequel on défiait quelqu’un pour un combat singulier. Défi par écrit pour un combat dans une fête, aux tournois, ou en duel solennel. Pronounced \kaʁ.tɛl\. Often confused with cruel and caste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cartel is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,878 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cartel, with forms such as "acrtel", "caretl", and "carrtel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cruel", "caste", "corte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cartel, spelled C-A-R-T-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écrit par lequel on défiait quelqu’un pour un combat singulier. Défi par écrit pour un combat dans une fête, aux tournois, ou en duel solennel.
- 2Convention entre les chefs de deux armées belligérantes en vue d’une suspension d’armes, d’un échange de prisonniers, etc.
- 3Plaquette ou étiquette, fixée sur le cadre d’un tableau, sur le socle d’une statue, ou à côté d’une œuvre et donnant diverses informations : titre, auteur, etc.
- 4Ornement qui entoure le cadran de certaines pendules portatives faites pour être appliquées à la muraille, au lambris, dans un appartement et, par extension, la pendule même.
- 5Bateau chargé d’une mission pacifique, ou parlementaire, il n’est pas armé et ne doit pas être attaqué par les belligérants.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrtel,caretl,carrtel,cartell,cartle,carttel,catrel,ccartel,cratel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cartel
Misspelling Variants of "cartel"
Frequency rank: #14,878 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: