Cadmus
The verdict
“Cadmus” is uncommon French (frequency #78,218 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,218
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadmus · Cadmus · French
Cadmus · rank #78,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,218
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénéficions
Nearest frequency peer: bénéficions (-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 « Cadmus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- buquet
buquet
21,785 corpus weight
- bénéficions
bénéficions
21,784 corpus weight
- Cadmus
Cadmus
21,783 corpus weight
- cado
cado
21,782 corpus weight
- cajoler
cajoler
21,781 corpus weight
- calamar
calamar
21,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cadmus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cadmus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cadmus is uncommon French at frequency #78,218 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cadmus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Cadmus, spelled C-A-D-M-U-S.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cadmus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le propre de certaines organisations, c’est de faire jaillir un événement de tout endroit où elles posent le pied. C’est Cadmus semant des soldats sur le sol de Thèbes ; c’est Hercule éparpillant ses douze travaux sur la face du monde.
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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