caduc
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,197
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
caduc is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit d’un organe, notamment les feuilles, se détachant et tombant chaque année. Pronounced \ka.dyk\. Often confused with CDC and CDU.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caduc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ka.dyk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caduc is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.dyk\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,197 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for caduc, with forms such as "acduc", "cadcu", and "cadduc". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "CDC", "CDU", "caux", 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 caduc, spelled C-A-D-U-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un organe, notamment les feuilles, se détachant et tombant chaque année.
- 2Se dit d’un arbre dont les feuilles sont caduques.
- 3Qui touche à sa fin, à sa ruine.
- 4Qui est périmé, dépassé ou n’est plus valide.
- 5Qui reste sans effet, sans propriétaire.
- 6Muet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acduc,cadcu,cadduc,caducc,caudc,ccaduc,cdauc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caduc
Misspelling Variants of "caduc"
Frequency rank: #39,197 in French
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Nearby French words
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