carton rouge
\kaʁ.tɔ̃ ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“carton rouge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans certains sports collectifs dont le football, sanction infligée par l'arbitre, signifiant une expulsion définitive du terrain de jeu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carton-rouge · carton rouge · French
carton rouge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « carton rouge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carton rouge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tɔ̃ ʁuʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carton rouge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Clément est appelé par l’arbitre qui lui adresse un carton rouge synonyme d’expulsion.
Dans un match de Fédérale 3 (5e division) opposant les Catalans de le Boulou à ceux de Salanque Côte Radieuse, la première minute de la rencontre aura accouché d’une bagarre générale et de quatre cartons rouges.
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.