cador
\ka.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“cador” is uncommon French (frequency #66,561 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,561
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Champion, personne compétente, dominante, experte, performante dans un domaine particulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cador · cador · French
cador · rank #66,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,561
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Bérengère
Nearest frequency peer: Bérengère (-2 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 « cador »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Byblos
Byblos
33,445 corpus weight
- Bélarus
Bélarus
33,444 corpus weight
- Bérengère
Bérengère
33,442 corpus weight
- cador
cador
33,440 corpus weight
- canicules
canicules
33,438 corpus weight
- cardamome
cardamome
33,436 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cador » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cador |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cador » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cador is uncommon French at frequency #66,561 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.dɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cador in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cador, spelled C-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Champion, personne compétente, dominante, experte, performante dans un domaine particulier.
- 2Chien. → voir cabot, clebs. (D'après un personnage de Binet)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cador appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et le Mexicain, ç’a été une épée, un cador ; moi je suis objectif, on parlera encore de lui dans cent ans.
Alors que les autres salariés du groupe attendent un geste des joueurs, de nombreux cadors européens, parmi lesquels le Barça, le Real Madrid, le Bayern Munich ou la Juventus Turin, ont trouvé un accord.
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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