cartouches
\kaʁ.tuʃ\
The verdict
“cartouches” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,924
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cartouche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartouches · cartouches · French
cartouches · rank #12,924 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,924
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH captivité
Nearest frequency peer: captivité (-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 « cartouches »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- calmez
calmez
87,079 corpus weight
- captivité
captivité
87,078 corpus weight
- cartouches
cartouches
87,077 corpus weight
- cauchemars
cauchemars
87,076 corpus weight
- certificats
certificats
87,075 corpus weight
- cerveaux
cerveaux
87,074 corpus weight
What this shows « cartouches » 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 | cartouches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tuʃ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cartouches »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around cartouches (IPA \kaʁ.tuʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,924 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cartouche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for cartouches, with forms such as "acrtouches", "carotuches", and "carrtouches". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cartouche", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cartouches, spelled C-A-R-T-O-U-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cartouche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cartouches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le brigadier Knisley se rempara pour faire face à cette attaque, et son petit détachement combattit depuis 4 heures de l’après-midi, le 1ᵉʳ, jusqu’à midi le mercredi, 2 du présent mois, alors que toutes les cartouches étant épuisées le brigadier Knisley et le soldat Day furent tués.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrtouches
- carotuches
- carrtouches
- cartocuhes
- cartoucches
- cartoucehs
- cartouchess
- cartouchhes
- cartouchse
- cartouhces
- carttouches
- cartuoches
- catrouches
- ccartouches
- cratouches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cartouches - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).