cartoon
\kaʁ.tun\
The verdict
“cartoon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,015. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,015
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dessin animé américain de style comique généralement au format de court métrage, dont l’âge d’or se situe dans les années 1930-1950.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartoon · cartoon · French
cartoon · rank #34,015 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,015
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carolyn
Nearest frequency peer: Carolyn (-2 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 « cartoon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Carlyle
Carlyle
65,990 corpus weight
- Carolina
Carolina
65,989 corpus weight
- Carolyn
Carolyn
65,988 corpus weight
- cartoon
cartoon
65,986 corpus weight
- cessons
cessons
65,984 corpus weight
- charlatans
charlatans
65,982 corpus weight
What this shows « cartoon » 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 | cartoon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tun\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cartoon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cartoon (IPA \kaʁ.tun\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,015 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cartoon, with forms such as "acrtoon", "caroton", and "carrtoon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "caton", "caution", "caron", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cartoon, spelled C-A-R-T-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dessin animé américain de style comique généralement au format de court métrage, dont l’âge d’or se situe dans les années 1930-1950.
- 2Bande dessinée humoristique américaine (livre).
- 3Par extension, bande dessinée humoristique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cartoon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les années 30 et sa récession économique trouvent dans le cartoon, comme dans les exaltantes comédies musicales ou dans l’humanisme naïf de Franck Capra, l’opportunité idéale de se soustraire à une réalité oppressante.
Dans le halo d’une lampe de bureau, le réceptionniste lisait un cartoon jauni.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrtoon
- caroton
- carrtoon
- cartono
- cartoonn
- carttoon
- catroon
- ccartoon
- cratoon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cartoon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).