cado
\ˈka.do\
The verdict
“cado” is uncommon French (frequency #78,219 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,219
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cadere.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cado · cado · French
cado · rank #78,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,219
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cadmus
Nearest frequency peer: Cadmus (-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 « cado »
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 « cado » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈka.do\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cado » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cado is uncommon French at frequency #78,219 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈka.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cadere.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cado, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cado, spelled C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cadere.
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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