cadenas
French, noun/kad.na/
cadenas is spelled C-A-D-E-N-A-S (7 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 18,149th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cadenas is a French masculine noun meaning “padlock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Serrure mobile qui sert à fermer une porte, une caisse, etc., au moyen d’un anneau passé soit dans un autre…”.
What does cadenas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepadlock
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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. 2. Coffret d'or où l'on mettait le couteau, la cuillère, etc. ^([2])
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce cadenas?
- /kad.na/
- /kad.nɑ/
- \kad.nɑ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cadenas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cadenas in French?
cadenas appears 2.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).