cadenas
\kad.nɑ\
The verdict
“cadenas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,142
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Serrure mobile qui sert à fermer une porte, une caisse, etc., au moyen d’un anneau passé soit dans un autre anneau, soit dans deux pitons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadenas · cadenas · French
cadenas · rank #18,142 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,142
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Buffon
Nearest frequency peer: Buffon (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cadenas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brousse
brousse
81,862 corpus weight
- brûlent
brûlent
81,861 corpus weight
- Buffon
Buffon
81,860 corpus weight
- cadenas
cadenas
81,859 corpus weight
- caprice
caprice
81,857 corpus weight
- challenges
challenges
81,856 corpus weight
What this shows « cadenas » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadenas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kad.nɑ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cadenas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cadenas (IPA \kad.nɑ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,142 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cadenas, with forms such as "acdenas", "caddenas", and "cadeans". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cadets", "cadence", "canevas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cadenas, spelled C-A-D-E-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1Serrure mobile qui sert à fermer une porte, une caisse, etc., au moyen d’un anneau passé soit dans un autre anneau, soit dans deux pitons.
- 2Coffret d'or où l'on mettait le couteau, la cuillère, etc. ^([2])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cadenas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les peuples européens , les premières serrures un peu artistement faites ne remontent guère en deçà du seizième siècle. C'est à cette époque que furent imaginés les cadenas à combinaison, qui ne peuvent être ouverts que quand on a la connaissance du mot sous lequel ils ont été établis.
Une seconde porte apparut, fermée par un cadenas syllabique, du genre de ceux qui servent pour les coffres-forts. Herr Schultze forma le mot et ouvrit le lourd battant de fer, qui était intérieurement armé d’un appareil compliqué d’engins explosibles, que Marcel, sans doute par curiosité professionnelle, aurait bien voulu examiner. Mais son guide ne lui e…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acdenas
- caddenas
- cadeans
- cadenass
- cadennas
- cadensa
- cadneas
- caednas
- ccadenas
- cdaenas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cadenas - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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