cadis
\ka.di\
The verdict
“cadis” is uncommon French (frequency #96,715 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,715
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe de laine croisée et à grains employée en Provence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadis · cadis · French
cadis · rank #96,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,715
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cacharel
Nearest frequency peer: cacharel (-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 « cadis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bédarieux
Bédarieux
3,289 corpus weight
- cacharel
cacharel
3,287 corpus weight
- cadis
cadis
3,286 corpus weight
- caio
caio
3,285 corpus weight
- calent
calent
3,284 corpus weight
- camba
camba
3,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cadis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cadis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cadis is uncommon French at frequency #96,715 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cadis, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cadis, spelled C-A-D-I-S.
Definition
- 1Étoffe de laine croisée et à grains employée en Provence.
- 2Serge de bas prix.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cadis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vraiment il avait belle mine, ce Valmajour, planté au milieu du cirque, sa veste de cadis jaune sur l’épaule, autour des reins sa taillole d’un rouge vif tranchant sur l’empois blanc du linge.
Il y avait dans l’auditoire un riche marchand retiré, un peu usurier, nommé M. Geborand, lequel avait gagné deux millions à fabriquer de gros draps, des serges, des cadis et des gasquets.
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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