cathèdre
\ka.tɛdʁ\
The verdict
“cathèdre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Siège d’un évêque, d’un abbé dans leur lieu de culte respectif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cathedre · cathèdre · French
cathèdre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cathèdre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tɛdʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cathèdre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.tɛdʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cathèdre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cathèdre, spelled C-A-T-H-È-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Siège d’un évêque, d’un abbé dans leur lieu de culte respectif.
- 2Siège massif, de style gothique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cathèdre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] on sait que la distinction entre les églises cathédrales et les autres est tout à fait artificielle, puisqu’il suffisait, à l’occasion d’une fête, d’y dresser la cathèdre d’un évêque, pour qu’une église devînt momentanément cathédrale.
Près du canapé à l’austère inconfort d’une cathèdre, il y a une table basse ; dessus, les pages jaune paille d’un journal d’économie, un cendrier en cuivre et, curieux, un triangle de bois : c’est un écoinçon, ôté du parquet marqueté car il branlait, que M. de Funcal utilise comme presse-papiers lorsqu’un vent taquin venu de la fenêtre tourne les pages du…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.