cae
\ˈka.e\
The verdict
“cae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,819) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,819
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier caer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cae · cae · French
cae · rank #43,819 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,819
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bueno
Nearest frequency peer: bueno (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cae”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- broder
broder
56,186 corpus weight
- browser
browser
56,185 corpus weight
- bueno
bueno
56,184 corpus weight
- cae
cae
56,182 corpus weight
- camino
camino
56,179 corpus weight
- campanile
campanile
56,178 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cae” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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) |
Où “cae” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cae is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈka.e\. Frequency #43,819 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- Usage frequency rank #43,819 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.