Cebu
The verdict
“Cebu” is uncommon French (frequency #61,387 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,387
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île des Philippines située entre Mindanao et Luçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cebu · Cebu · French
Cebu · rank #61,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,387
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cazenave
Nearest frequency peer: Cazenave (-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 « Cebu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caudale
caudale
38,618 corpus weight
- caza
caza
38,616 corpus weight
- Cazenave
Cazenave
38,615 corpus weight
- Cebu
Cebu
38,614 corpus weight
- cendriers
cendriers
38,613 corpus weight
- centralisées
centralisées
38,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cebu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cebu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cebu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cebu is uncommon French at frequency #61,387 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cebu, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Cebu, spelled C-E-B-U.
Definition
- 1Île des Philippines située entre Mindanao et Luçon.
- 2Ville des Philippines située sur l’île du même nom.
- 3Province des Philippines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cebu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après le défi de la projection stratégique vers les Philippines, nous voici confrontés au problème du transport vers la zone sinistrée depuis l’aéroport de l’île de Cebu vers l’île voisine de Leyte et l’aéroport de Tcloban, avec les moyens disponibles sur place, mais déjà surexploités.
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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