cedar
\ˈsi.də\
The verdict
“cedar” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,975. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,975
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cèdre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cedar · cedar · French
cedar · rank #48,975 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,975
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH causses
Nearest frequency peer: causses (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cedar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caterpillar
caterpillar
51,030 corpus weight
- catéchèse
catéchèse
51,029 corpus weight
- causses
causses
51,027 corpus weight
- cedar
cedar
51,026 corpus weight
- chansonnier
chansonnier
51,023 corpus weight
- chapel
chapel
51,022 corpus weight
What this shows « cedar » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | cedar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsi.də\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cedar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cedar (IPA \ˈsi.də\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,975 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cedar, with forms such as "ccedar", "cdear", and "ceadr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cer", "cela", "char", 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 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 cedar, spelled C-E-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1Cèdre.
- 2Un conifère de la famille des Cupressaceae, en particulier le genre Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, ou Thuja.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cedar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The cedar of Lebanon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccedar
- cdear
- ceadr
- cedarr
- ceddar
- cedra
- ecdar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cedar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cedar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).