Cadmus
The verdict
“Cadmus” is an uncommon French word, ranked #78,218 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #78,218
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cadmus, fils d’Agénor, frère d’Europe, de Phénix et de Cilix, fondateur légendaire de la cité de Thèbes. Il est l’importateur, en Grèce, de l’alphabet phénicien → voir cadméen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cadmus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cadmus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Cadmus is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #78,218 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cadmus, fils d’Agénor, frère d’Europe, de Phénix et de Cilix, fondateur légendaire de la cité de Thèbes. Il est l’importateur, en Grèce, de l’alphabet phénicien → voir cadméen.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cadmus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Cadmus, spelled C-A-D-M-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cadmus, fils d’Agénor, frère d’Europe, de Phénix et de Cilix, fondateur légendaire de la cité de Thèbes. Il est l’importateur, en Grèce, de l’alphabet phénicien → voir cadméen.
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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Using “Cadmus”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-M-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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