cartons
\kaʁ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“cartons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,967
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de carton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartons · cartons · French
cartons · rank #8,967 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,967
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bouts
Nearest frequency peer: bouts (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cartons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bayern
Bayern
91,037 corpus weight
- blessée
blessée
91,036 corpus weight
- bouts
bouts
91,035 corpus weight
- cartons
cartons
91,034 corpus weight
- cavalier
cavalier
91,033 corpus weight
- changes
changes
91,032 corpus weight
What this shows « cartons » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cartons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cartons (IPA \kaʁ.tɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,967 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de carton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cartons, with forms such as "acrtons", "carotns", and "carrtons". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caton", "citons", "créons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cartons, spelled C-A-R-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de carton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cartons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’on commence à les décontenir, ces pré-adolescents trouvent d’autres dispositifs de contention, par exemple en se mettant dans des cartons, dans des tunnels de jeu, moments où ils montrent qu’ils peuvent reprendre à leur compte cette expérience psychosomatique qu’est la contention.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrtons
- carotns
- carrtons
- cartnos
- cartonns
- cartonss
- cartosn
- carttons
- catrons
- ccartons
- cratons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cartons - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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