cartonnée
\kaʁ.tɔ.ne\
The verdict
“cartonnée” is uncommon French (frequency #81,858 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,858
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne mesure agraire de surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartonnee · cartonnée · French
cartonnée · rank #81,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,858
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cassagne
Nearest frequency peer: Cassagne (+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 « cartonnée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calcique
calcique
18,149 corpus weight
- campine
campine
18,148 corpus weight
- canson
canson
18,147 corpus weight
- cartonnée
cartonnée
18,143 corpus weight
- Cassagne
Cassagne
18,142 corpus weight
- casto
casto
18,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cartonnée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartonnée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cartonnée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cartonnée is uncommon French at frequency #81,858 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne mesure agraire de surface.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cartonnée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cartonnée, spelled C-A-R-T-O-N-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne mesure agraire de surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cartonnée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CARTONNÉE. Ancienne mesure agraire ou de superficie, usitée à Cahors en France. La cartonnée, ¼ de la quarterée, se divise en 4 boisseaux = 64 onces = 12100 pieds carrés de Paris = 12.768 ares.
En 1784 , le patrimoine du prieuré de Sail-sous-Couzan se composait des éléments suivants : Fort belle maison appelée le prieuré , grange , écurie , cuvage , cuves , pressoir , 3 cartonnées de jardin en deux pièces , 2 journalées de vigne , 60 cartonnées de bois taillis, 2 prés de la contenue de 27 cartonnées.
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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