carton
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,215
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Papier gros et raide (plus de 224 g au mètre carré), composé parfois de feuilles collées. Pronounced \kaʁ.tɔ̃\. It ranks #4,215 in French word frequency. Often confused with coton and catin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carton is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,215 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for carton, with forms such as "acrton", "carotn", and "carrton". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coton", "catin", "caton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 carton, spelled C-A-R-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Papier gros et raide (plus de 224 g au mètre carré), composé parfois de feuilles collées.
- 2Carton-pâte qui sert à la fabrication de divers autres objets.
- 3Boîte ou emballage, le plus souvent fait de ce matériau.
- 4Plaque de carton qui sert de cible dans un tir. → voir faire un carton.
- 5Ébauche, tracé, modèle sur du papier, d’après lesquels le peintre fait sa fresque, ou qu’on donne aux ouvriers en tapisseries pour recopier.
- 6Feuille chantournée qui sert à tracer des profils.
- 7Feuillet d’impression détachés d’une feuille entière.
- 8Feuillet qu’on refait, à cause de quelques fautes qu’on y veut corriger ou de quelque changement qu’on y veut faire.
- 9Succès.
- 10Se dit de quelque chose qui est en projet, en préparation.
- 11Accident.
- 12Forme courte de carton publicitaire.
- 13Carte complémentaire d’une carte principale, figurant sur la même feuille et souvent établie à une échelle différente.
- 14Carte de bristol placée devant chaque couvert d'une table et indiquant les noms des convives.
- 15Se dit de quelqu'un ou de quelque chose de faux, de factice.
- 16Intertitre, texte filmé à l'écran.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrton,carotn,carrton,cartno,cartonn,cartton,catron,ccarton,craton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carton
Misspelling Variants of "carton"
Frequency rank: #4,215 in French
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