cédérom
\se.de.ʁɔm\
The verdict
“cédérom” is uncommon French (frequency #95,774 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,774
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante orthographique de CD-ROM.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cédérom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.de.ʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cédérom” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cédérom is uncommon French at frequency #95,774 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.de.ʁɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cédérom in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cédérom, spelled C-É-D-É-R-O-M.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de CD-ROM.
- 2Variante orthographique de CD-ROM.
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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Using “cédérom”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-É-D-É-R-O-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.