Carthage
\kaʁ.taʒ\
The verdict
“Carthage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,361
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Tunisie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carthage · Carthage · French
Carthage · rank #17,361 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,361
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carême
Nearest frequency peer: carême (+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 « Carthage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cahuzac
Cahuzac
82,643 corpus weight
- capitalistes
capitalistes
82,642 corpus weight
- Carthage
Carthage
82,640 corpus weight
- carême
carême
82,639 corpus weight
- castor
castor
82,638 corpus weight
- ceintures
ceintures
82,637 corpus weight
What this shows « Carthage » 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 | Carthage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Carthage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Carthage (IPA \kaʁ.taʒ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,361 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 Carthage, with forms such as "acrthage", "carhtage", and "carrthage". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cartilage", "Carthagène", "carnage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Carthage, spelled C-A-R-T-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ville de Tunisie.
- 2Ancienne capitale, située actuellement en Tunisie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Carthage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le succès de l’haruspicine ne se limitait pas à la religion officielle. Une foule d’haruspices privés proposait ses consultations au public moyennant finance : dans la Carthage du IVᵉ siècle apr. J.-C., le futur saint Augustin, alors étudiant, y eut encore recours.
carthaginois
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrthage
- carhtage
- carrthage
- cartahge
- carthaeg
- carthagge
- carthgae
- carthhage
- cartthage
- catrhage
- ccarthage
- crathage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Carthage - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).