cadres

/\kɑdʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,442

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cadres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de cadre. Pronounced \kɑdʁ\. It ranks #3,442 in French word frequency. Often confused with care and carré.

Key facts for cadres
PropertyValue
Headwordcadres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɑdʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,442
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cadres in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cadres is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑdʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,442 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de cadre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cadres, with forms such as "acdres", "caddres", and "caders". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "care", "carré", "caire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 cadres, spelled C-A-D-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de cadre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acdres,caddres,caders,cadress,cadrres,cadrse,cardes,ccadres,cdares

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cadres

Misspelling Variants of "cadres"

acdres6caddres7caders6cadress7cadrres7cadrse6cardes6ccadres7
Misspelling Variants of "cadres"

Frequency rank: #3,442 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cadres"?
"cadres" is spelled C-A-D-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑdʁ\.
What does "cadres" mean?
As a noun, "cadres" means: Pluriel de cadre.
What words are commonly confused with "cadres"?
"cadres" is commonly confused with "care", "carré", "caire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cadres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cadres" is \kɑdʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cadres" come from?
"cadres" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.