cae
\ˈka.e\
The verdict
“cae” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #43,819 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #43,819
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier caer.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈka.e\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cae” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cae is 3 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈka.e\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,819 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
cae doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cae, spelled C-A-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier caer.
- 2Impératif de la deuxième personne du singulier du verbe irrégulier caer.
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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Using “cae”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈka.e\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ce” - see the side-by-side comparison. cae vs ce
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.