cadena
[ka.ˈðe.na]
The verdict
“cadena” is uncommon French (frequency #73,797 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,797
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaîne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadena · cadena · French
cadena · rank #73,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,797
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bévues
Nearest frequency peer: bévues (-1 rank slots)
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 “cadena”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bénies
bénies
26,208 corpus weight
- bénéficia
bénéficia
26,207 corpus weight
- bévues
bévues
26,205 corpus weight
- cadena
cadena
26,204 corpus weight
- camelote
camelote
26,202 corpus weight
- camionnage
camionnage
26,201 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cadena” sits against similarly uncommon French ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadena |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ka.ˈðe.na] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “cadena” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
cadena is uncommon French at frequency #73,797 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ka.ˈðe.na]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cadena in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cadena, spelled C-A-D-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Chaîne.
- 2Chaîne de caractères.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).