cede
\siːd\
The verdict
“cede” is uncommon French (frequency #92,532 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,532
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Céder, abandonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cede · cede · French
cede · rank #92,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,532
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cellular
Nearest frequency peer: cellular (+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 « cede »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caracal
caracal
7,475 corpus weight
- careful
careful
7,472 corpus weight
- cassais
cassais
7,471 corpus weight
- cede
cede
7,469 corpus weight
- cellular
cellular
7,468 corpus weight
- charmilles
charmilles
7,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cede » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cede |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \siːd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cede » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cede is uncommon French at frequency #92,532 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \siːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ou Céder, abandonner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cede, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 cede, spelled C-E-D-E.
Definition
- 1ou Céder, abandonner.
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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