joints de Cardan
\ʒwɛ̃ də kaʁdɑ̃\
The verdict
“joints de Cardan” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de joint de Cardan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joints de Cardan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒwɛ̃ də kaʁdɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “joints de Cardan” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for joints de Cardan is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwɛ̃ də kaʁdɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de joint de Cardan.".
No misspelling variants are generated for joints de Cardan 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 joints de Cardan, spelled J-O-I-N-T-S- -D-E- -C-A-R-D-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de joint de Cardan.
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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- The one correct French spelling is J-O-I-N-T-S- -D-E- -C-A-R-D-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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