culte du cargo

\kylt dy kaʁ.ɡo\

/\kylt dy kaʁ.ɡo\/ noun

The verdict

“culte du cargo” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Culte effectivement longtemps pratiqué à Tanna en Mélanésie

Key facts for culte du cargo
PropertyValue
Headwordculte du cargo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kylt dy kaʁ.ɡo\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “culte du cargo” sits in French frequency

culte du cargo falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for culte du cargo is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kylt dy kaʁ.ɡo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for culte du cargo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 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 culte du cargo, spelled C-U-L-T-E- -D-U- -C-A-R-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Culte effectivement longtemps pratiqué à Tanna en Mélanésie
  2. 2
    Tendance de certains peuples à tout attendre de l’aide extérieure

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "culte du cargo"?
"culte du cargo" is spelled C-U-L-T-E- -D-U- -C-A-R-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is \kylt dy kaʁ.ɡo\.
What does "culte du cargo" mean?
As a noun, "culte du cargo" means: Culte effectivement longtemps pratiqué à Tanna en Mélanésie
How do you pronounce "culte du cargo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culte du cargo" is \kylt dy kaʁ.ɡo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "culte du cargo" come from?
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Using “culte du cargo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-U-L-T-E- -D-U- -C-A-R-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kylt dy kaʁ.ɡo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: 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.

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