cartographie

Name: cartographie, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\

/\kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“cartographie” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,536
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 18
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de dresser les cartes de géographie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cartographie · cartographie · French

cartographie · rank #13,536 · 18 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-MID #13,536
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-HIGH 18 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH Cazeneuve

Nearest frequency peer: Cazeneuve (+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.

cargo

86,469
carotte

86,468
carreaux

86,467
cartographie

86,465
Cazeneuve

86,464
Chanel

86,462

What this shows « cartographie » 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).

cartographie vs cartographier

92% similar

cartographie vs cartographique

86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cartographie
Property	Value
Headword	cartographie
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#13,536
Misspellings tracked	18
Confusable pairs	2
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cartographie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cartographiese place ici:

#13,536

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Cazeneuve » (#13,537), « carreaux » (#13,534), « carotte » (#13,533). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cartographie » est au #13,536. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around cartographie (IPA \kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,536 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for cartographie, with forms such as "acrtographie", "carotgraphie", and "carrtographie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cartographier", "cartographique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cartographie, spelled C-A-R-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.

Definition

1
Art de dresser les cartes de géographie.
2
Ensemble des études et des opérations scientifiques, artistiques et techniques, intervenant à partir des résultats d’observations directes ou de l’exploitation d’une documentation, en vue de l’élaboration et de l’établissement de cartes, plans et autres modes d’expression, ainsi que dans leur utilisation.
3
Réalisation ou amélioration des cartes géographiques, géologiques, etc.
4
Représentation souvent schématique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cartographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Ce n'était pas sans raison que Jasper Hobson, après avoir consciencieusement étudié la cartographie de ces terres boréales, s'était dirigé vers le cap Bathurst.
Nous venions de repartir et de regagner un peu d'altitude, quand on vint m' avertir qu'une chaîne de montagnes était signalée dans notre ouaiche. Je me rendis immédiatement au poste de cartographie, dans la tourelle arrière.

This word in other languages

cartography(English)cartografía(Español)Kartografie(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

acrtographie
carotgraphie
carrtographie
cartgoraphie
cartogarphie
cartoggraphie
cartograhpie
cartographei
cartographhie
cartograpihe
cartograpphie
cartogrpahie
cartogrraphie
cartorgaphie
carttographie
catrographie
ccartographie
cratographie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cartographie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "cartographie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cartographie"?

"cartographie" is spelled C-A-R-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\.

What does "cartographie" mean?

As a noun, "cartographie" means: Art de dresser les cartes de géographie.

What words are commonly confused with "cartographie"?

"cartographie" is commonly confused with "cartographier", "cartographique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "cartographie"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cartographie" is \kaʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "cartographie" come from?

"cartographie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cartographie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

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