cadette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,505
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
cadette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des sœurs qui viennent après l’aîné par ordre de naissance. Pronounced \ka.dɛt\. Often confused with cette and carotte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.dɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,505 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cadette, with forms such as "acdette", "caddette", and "cadete". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "cette", "carotte", "Colette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cadette, spelled C-A-D-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des sœurs qui viennent après l’aîné par ordre de naissance.
- 2Sœur par rapport à un frère ou à une sœur qui précède par ordre de naissance.
- 3Fille née l’avant-dernière parmi les enfants → voir benjamine.
- 4L'enfant dont l'âge se situe entre celui de deux personnes qui sont frère ou sœur.
- 5Personne plus jeune qu’une autre.
- 6Jeune sportive, plutôt vers la fin de l’adolescence.
- 7Petite pierre de taille destinée au pavage.
- 8Petite queue de billard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acdette,caddette,cadete,cadetet,cadtete,caedtte,ccadette,cdaette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cadette
Misspelling Variants of "cadette"
Frequency rank: #22,505 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: