cadrat
\ka.dʁa\
The verdict
“cadrat” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit morceau de fonte que les imprimeurs emploient pour remplir les vides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadrat · cadrat · French
cadrat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadrat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cadrat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cadrat is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.dʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit morceau de fonte que les imprimeurs emploient pour remplir les vides.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cadrat, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cadrat, spelled C-A-D-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Petit morceau de fonte que les imprimeurs emploient pour remplir les vides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cadrat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une ligne qui finit un alinéa, mais qui laisse un vide, se complète par des garnitures qu’on appelle cadrats ; car tout doit être plein dans la composition, de façon à faire une masse compacte, dont aucun caractère ne bouge à l’impression.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.