cadel
[ˈkʰeɪ.dl̩]noun
cadel is a noun meaning “An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy, consisting of interlaced pen strokes. See :Commons:Cadel letters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-D-E-L and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cadel is cadels.
What does cadel mean?
noun
- 1
An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy, consisting of interlaced pen strokes. See :Commons:Cadel letters.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cadel?
- US [ˈkʰeɪ.dl̩]
Cadel has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cadel
- cadels plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cadel?
Cadel appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cadel come from?
From Latin capitellum, diminuitive of Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of captain. Cognate with French cadeau. Doublet of caddie, cadet, capital, capitellum, and caudillo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).