chardon
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,224
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chardon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante de la famille des Astéracées (ou Composées, rattachée au genre Carduus), dont les nombreuses espèces ont des feuilles épineuses et un calice formé d’écailles terminées par des piquants très ... Pronounced \ʃaʁ.dɔ̃\. Often confused with cordon and chaton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chardon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chardon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁ.dɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,224 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for chardon, with forms such as "cahrdon", "cchardon", and "chadron". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cordon", "chaton", "Charon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chardon, spelled C-H-A-R-D-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Astéracées (ou Composées, rattachée au genre Carduus), dont les nombreuses espèces ont des feuilles épineuses et un calice formé d’écailles terminées par des piquants très aigus.
- 2Meuble représentant la plante du même nom dans les armoiries.
- 3Autre plante de genre, voire de famille, botanique différent mais qui ressemble aux chardons vrais.
- 4Fruit crochu de diverses espèces végétales, qui contaminent la laine brute.
- 5Confiserie dont l’aspect ressemble à la fleur de la plante éponyme. Il s’agit d’une coque de sucre enrobée de chocolat blanc aromatisé et coloré, le tout rempli de liqueur.
- 6Oursin faisant penser à un chardon.
- 7Personne peu commode.
- 8Tissu composé d'une chaîne fine et d’une trame épaisse, puis tondu pour donner un effet de velours et utilisé en passementerie
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrdon,cchardon,chadron,charddon,chardno,chardonn,charodn,charrdon,chhardon,chradon,hcardon
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Misspelling Variants of "chardon"
Frequency rank: #37,224 in French
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