CED
\sɛd\
The verdict
“CED” is uncommon French (frequency #59,154 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,154
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Projet de création d’une armée européenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ced · CED · French
CED · rank #59,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,154
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CDF
Nearest frequency peer: CDF (-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 « CED »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cavalaire
Cavalaire
40,851 corpus weight
- cde
cde
40,849 corpus weight
- CDF
CDF
40,848 corpus weight
- CED
CED
40,847 corpus weight
- Chaix
Chaix
40,846 corpus weight
- chauffes
chauffes
40,845 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CED » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CED |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CED » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CED is uncommon French at frequency #59,154 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
CED doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 CED, spelled C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Projet de création d’une armée européenne.
- 2« Centre d'éducation pour le développement » au Mali.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CED appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 30 août 1954, alors que les autres États partenaires ont ratifié le traité, une majorité de députés français retirent leur confiance au gouvernement Mendès-France et rejettent de facto la CED.
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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