cedes
/siːdz/
"cedes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cedes” is uncommon English (frequency #85,099 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,099
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of cede
Corpus desk
Index EN-cedes · cedes · English
cedes · rank #85,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,099
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Celle
Nearest frequency peer: Celle (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cedes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- caren
caren
14,912 corpus weight
- cavalryman
cavalryman
14,905 corpus weight
- cedes
cedes
14,902 corpus weight
- Celle
Celle
14,901 corpus weight
- Celsus
Celsus
14,900 corpus weight
- chaebol
chaebol
14,897 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cedes” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cedes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /siːdz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cedes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cedes is uncommon English at frequency #85,099 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /siːdz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of cede".
cedes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cedes, spelled C-E-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of cede
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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