chardon à foulon
\ʃaʁ.dɔ̃ a fu.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“chardon à foulon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de cardère sauvage, commune sur les bords des chemins en Europe, (Dipsacus fullonum), dont on faisait des peignes pour carder la laine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chardon à foulon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.dɔ̃ a fu.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chardon à foulon” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chardon à foulon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.dɔ̃ a fu.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de cardère sauvage, commune sur les bords des chemins en Europe, (Dipsacus fullonum), dont on faisait des peignes pour carder la laine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chardon à foulon in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chardon à foulon, spelled C-H-A-R-D-O-N- -À- -F-O-U-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de cardère sauvage, commune sur les bords des chemins en Europe, (Dipsacus fullonum), dont on faisait des peignes pour carder la laine.
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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.
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Using “chardon à foulon”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-R-D-O-N- -À- -F-O-U-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.