cartilage
\kaʁ.ti.laʒ\
The verdict
“cartilage” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,333
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie blanche, dure, lisse, élastique, qui se trouve surtout aux extrémités des os, et qui forme le squelette entier de certains poissons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartilage · cartilage · French
cartilage · rank #32,333 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,333
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartable
Nearest frequency peer: cartable (-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 « cartilage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cantique
cantique
67,671 corpus weight
- cantiques
cantiques
67,670 corpus weight
- cartable
cartable
67,669 corpus weight
- cartilage
cartilage
67,668 corpus weight
- cendrier
cendrier
67,666 corpus weight
- chacal
chacal
67,665 corpus weight
What this shows « cartilage » 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 | cartilage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.ti.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cartilage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cartilage (IPA \kaʁ.ti.laʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,333 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partie blanche, dure, lisse, élastique, qui se trouve surtout aux extrémités des os, et qui forme le squelette entier de certains poissons.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cartilage, with forms such as "acrtilage", "caritlage", and "carrtilage". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Carthage", "carrelage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cartilage, spelled C-A-R-T-I-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Partie blanche, dure, lisse, élastique, qui se trouve surtout aux extrémités des os, et qui forme le squelette entier de certains poissons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cartilage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enclouure sera grave, si le pus, après avoir long-temps séjourné dans le pied, a carié l'os, ou si, après avoir fusé dessous la chair de la couronne, il a gâté, ou le tendon extenseur, ou le cartilage latéral, ou l'articulation.
Après avoir traîné vingt ans ses os et ses cartilages dans les garnisons ou sur les champs de bataille, il avait obtenu d’être incorporé dans un escadron de gendarmerie du Loiret, où sa minutieuse rigidité fut inégalable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrtilage
- caritlage
- carrtilage
- cartialge
- cartilaeg
- cartilagge
- cartilgae
- cartillage
- cartliage
- carttilage
- catrilage
- ccartilage
- cratilage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cartilage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).