cartographe
\kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“cartographe” is uncommon French (frequency #68,890 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,890
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialiste ayant subi une formation technique et éventuellement scientifique en vue de l’établissement de documents cartographiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartographe · cartographe · French
cartographe · rank #68,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,890
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carrosses
Nearest frequency peer: carrosses (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cartographe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carrare
carrare
31,114 corpus weight
- carriériste
carriériste
31,113 corpus weight
- carrosses
carrosses
31,112 corpus weight
- cartographe
cartographe
31,111 corpus weight
- Cassiopée
Cassiopée
31,110 corpus weight
- Cavaignac
Cavaignac
31,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cartographe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cartographe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cartographe is uncommon French at frequency #68,890 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialiste ayant subi une formation technique et éventuellement scientifique en vue de l’établissement de documents cartographiques.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cartographe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cartographe, spelled C-A-R-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Spécialiste ayant subi une formation technique et éventuellement scientifique en vue de l’établissement de documents cartographiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cartographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ces voyageurs nous ont même fait connaître des cantons peuplés et florissans, là où nos cartographes se plaisaient à tracer des déserts stériles, ou de vastes solitudes.
Il faut dire qu’en ce mois de septembre 1991 le marché de l’emploi n’était guère brillant pour un diplômé en géographie de vingt-trois ans. La première guerre du Golfe avait plongé l’économie mondiale en récession et les entreprises embauchaient à l’époque plus volontiers des experts en restructuration que des géologues ou des cartographes.
This word in other languages
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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