candela
\kɑ̃.de.la\
The verdict
“candela” is uncommon French (frequency #88,434 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,434
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure d’intensité lumineuse du Système international égale au lumen par stéradian, dont le symbole est cd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candela · candela · French
candela · rank #88,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,434
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Canadians
Nearest frequency peer: Canadians (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « candela »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camisards
camisards
11,569 corpus weight
- Canadians
Canadians
11,568 corpus weight
- candela
candela
11,567 corpus weight
- cannoise
cannoise
11,566 corpus weight
- captations
captations
11,565 corpus weight
- carette
carette
11,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « candela » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.de.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « candela » en français
Rare enough to double-check
candela is uncommon French at frequency #88,434 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.de.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure d’intensité lumineuse du Système international égale au lumen par stéradian, dont le symbole est cd.".
No misspelling variants are generated for candela in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is candela, spelled C-A-N-D-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure d’intensité lumineuse du Système international égale au lumen par stéradian, dont le symbole est cd.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how candela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le coefficient d'efficacité lumineuse de la lumière à l'obscurité est K'm = 1.746 lumens par watt pour 60 candelas par cm² d'émission à la température de solidification du platine, soit 2.642 °K.
Le cas du balisage aérien est un peu à part car il met en jeu des niveaux d'intensité lumineuse extrêmement importants (plusieurs dizaines voire centaines de milliers de candelas sous des angles faibles horizontalement entre 10 et 20° et sur 360°).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).