cédérom

\se.de.ʁɔm\

/\se.de.ʁɔm\/ noun

The verdict

“cédérom” is uncommon French (frequency #95,774 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#95,774
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de CD-ROM.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cederom · cédérom · French

cédérom · rank #95,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #95,774
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cyanobactéries

Nearest frequency peer: cyanobactéries (-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 « cédérom »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cédérom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cédérom
PropertyValue
Headwordcédérom
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.de.ʁɔm\
Letters7
Frequency rank#95,774
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cédérom » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cédéromtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « cyanobactéries » (#95,773), « Daan » (#95,776), « cuticules » (#95,771). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cédérom » est au #95,774. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cédérom is uncommon French at frequency #95,774 among 8,609 “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

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de CD-ROM.
  2. 2
    Variante orthographique de CD-ROM.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cédérom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Notre premier objectif final était de produire un cédérom interactif de la Bible Porta qui puisse être éventuellement commercialisé et qui de ce fait doit être multiplate-forme même si le produit de base est établi sur Macintosh.
  2. Manipuler un cédérom ou un dévédérom nécessite quelques précautions : on le tient la face imprimée au-dessus et on le maintient entre le pouce et le majeur en le tenant par les côtés ou le centre. faut éviter de mettre les doigts sur la partie inférieure quand on le sort de sa boîte ou de sa pochette, quand on le place dans le lecteur et quand on le range.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cédérom"?
"cédérom" is spelled C-É-D-É-R-O-M. The IPA pronunciation is \se.de.ʁɔm\.
What does "cédérom" mean?
As a noun, "cédérom" means: Variante orthographique de CD-ROM.
How do you pronounce "cédérom"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cédérom" is \se.de.ʁɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cédérom" come from?
"cédérom" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cédérom", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list