cadi
\ka.di\
The verdict
“cadi” is uncommon French (frequency #55,115 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,115
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juge musulman qui remplit à la fois les fonctions civiles et religieuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadi · cadi · French
cadi · rank #55,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,115
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cadastral
Nearest frequency peer: cadastral (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cadi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabas
cabas
44,889 corpus weight
- cachots
cachots
44,888 corpus weight
- cadastral
cadastral
44,887 corpus weight
- cadi
cadi
44,886 corpus weight
- cairn
cairn
44,885 corpus weight
- caller
caller
44,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cadi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.di\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cadi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cadi is uncommon French at frequency #55,115 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cadi in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cadi, spelled C-A-D-I.
Definition
- 1Juge musulman qui remplit à la fois les fonctions civiles et religieuses.
- 2Juge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cadi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nazira minauda gentiment avant de répondre aux deux témoins par un oui sacramentel ; …. Sa réponse fut portée au cadi.
Au point de vue juridique, les juifs relevaient de leurs rabbins et de la loi mosaïque dans les question de statut personnel ; pour le reste ils étaient justiciables, comme les musulmans, des caïds et des cadis.
This word in other languages
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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