cep
/sɛp/
"cep" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cep” is uncommon English (frequency #61,354 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,354
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).
Corpus desk
Index EN-cep · cep · English
cep · rank #61,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,354
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chabad
Nearest frequency peer: Chabad (+3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “cep”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cartographer
cartographer
38,654 corpus weight
- Caryl
Caryl
38,653 corpus weight
- cep
cep
38,647 corpus weight
- Chabad
Chabad
38,644 corpus weight
- Chaffee
Chaffee
38,643 corpus weight
- Chatfield
Chatfield
38,640 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cep” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cep |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɛp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cep” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cep is uncommon English at frequency #61,354 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɛp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cep, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French cèpe, from Latin cippus (“stake”). Doublet of cippus. The correct English form is cep, spelled C-E-P.
Definition
- 1An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ask yourself this question: How do we know that it is not dangerous for us to eat ceps and chanterelle mushrooms, but that we must never touch some others, such as deathcap mushrooms?
Etymology
From French cèpe, from Latin cippus (“stake”). Doublet of cippus.
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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