carthaginois
The verdict
“carthaginois” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #40,657 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #40,657
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qui est relatif à Carthage et à son peuple.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carthaginois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaʁ.ta.ʒi.nwa\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #40,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carthaginois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carthaginois is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.ta.ʒi.nwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,657 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui est relatif à Carthage et à son peuple.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for carthaginois, with forms such as "acrthaginois", "carhtaginois", and "carrthaginois". 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 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 carthaginois, spelled C-A-R-T-H-A-G-I-N-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est relatif à Carthage et à son peuple.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrthaginois,carhtaginois,carrthaginois,cartahginois,carthagginois,carthaginios,carthaginnois,carthaginoiss,carthaginosi,carthagionis,carthagniois,carthaignois,carthgainois,carthhaginois,cartthaginois,catrhaginois,ccarthaginois,crathaginois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carthaginois — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "carthaginois"
Frequency rank: #40,657 in French
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Using “carthaginois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-T-H-A-G-I-N-O-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ.ta.ʒi.nwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: