cartoons
\kaʁ.tun\
The verdict
“cartoons” is uncommon French (frequency #65,775 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,775
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cartoon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartoons · cartoons · French
cartoons · rank #65,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,775
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carron
Nearest frequency peer: carron (-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 « cartoons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carnation
carnation
34,229 corpus weight
- carolingien
carolingien
34,228 corpus weight
- carron
carron
34,227 corpus weight
- cartoons
cartoons
34,226 corpus weight
- cascadeurs
cascadeurs
34,225 corpus weight
- CCR
CCR
34,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cartoons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartoons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tun\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cartoons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cartoons is uncommon French at frequency #65,775 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cartoon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cartoons, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cartoons, spelled C-A-R-T-O-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cartoon.
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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