cartoufle
\kaʁ.tufl\
The verdict
“cartoufle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pomme de terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cartoufle · cartoufle · French
cartoufle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartoufle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tufl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cartoufle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cartoufle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.tufl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pomme de terre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cartoufle, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cartoufle, spelled C-A-R-T-O-U-F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pomme de terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cartoufle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les régions germaniques on l’appela aussi Erdapfel, dont pomme de terre est la traduction littérale. En France, elle fut connue à la fin de^([sic : du]) XVIᵉ siècle, puisque Olivier de Serres en parle sous le nom de cartoufle.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.