cadet
\ka.dɛ\
The verdict
“cadet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,358
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (En parlant d’un fils ou d’une fille, d’un frère ou d’une sœur) Qui est né après l'aîné, qui est le deuxième, qui est le plus jeune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadet · cadet · French
cadet · rank #11,358 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,358
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénin
Nearest frequency peer: bénin (-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 « cadet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bombardemen…
bombardements
88,646 corpus weight
- buffet
buffet
88,645 corpus weight
- bénin
bénin
88,644 corpus weight
- cadet
cadet
88,643 corpus weight
- catalan
catalan
88,642 corpus weight
- cerise
cerise
88,641 corpus weight
What this shows « cadet » 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 | cadet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cadet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cadet (IPA \ka.dɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,358 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cadet, with forms such as "acdet", "caddet", and "cadett". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cet", "cat", "cae", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cadet, spelled C-A-D-E-T.
Definition
- 1(En parlant d’un fils ou d’une fille, d’un frère ou d’une sœur) Qui est né après l'aîné, qui est le deuxième, qui est le plus jeune.
- 2Frère ou sœur par rapport à un frère ou à une sœur qui précède par ordre de naissance.
- 3D’une lignée issue d’un cadet.
- 4né en avant-dernier au sein d'une fratrie.
- 5Dernier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cadet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son frère cadet, Michel Giroux, a été condamné à sept ans de pénitencier pour des agressions sexuelles multiples commises à la même époque, où il droguait des jeunes femmes rencontrées en ligne avant de les violer.
[…], il se laissa imposer le titre de roi des Français sous le nom de Louis-Philippe Iᵉʳ (7 août 1830). C’était une usurpation audacieuse de la souveraineté nationale ; l’avènement de la branche cadette peut être qualifiée un escamotage.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acdet
- caddet
- cadett
- cadte
- caedt
- ccadet
- cdaet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cadet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).