carton rouge
\kaʁ.tɔ̃ ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“carton rouge” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans certains sports collectifs dont le football, sanction infligée par l'arbitre, signifiant une expulsion définitive du terrain de jeu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carton rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tɔ̃ ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carton rouge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carton rouge is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tɔ̃ ʁuʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carton rouge, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is carton rouge, spelled C-A-R-T-O-N- -R-O-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Dans certains sports collectifs dont le football, sanction infligée par l'arbitre, signifiant une expulsion définitive du terrain de jeu.
- 2Signalement public d'une erreur ou d'une faute.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “carton rouge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-T-O-N- -R-O-U-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ.tɔ̃ ʁuʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.