cédille
\se.dij\
The verdict
“cédille” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,589
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Signe diacritique de l’alphabet latin en forme de crochet vers la gauche (‹ ◌̧ ›) comme la moitié inférieure de z wisigothique (duquel elle provient), de petit c culbuté ou parfois de petite virgul...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cedille · cédille · French
cédille · rank #49,589 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,589
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curage
Nearest frequency peer: curage (-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 « cédille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cruiser
cruiser
50,415 corpus weight
- cupide
cupide
50,414 corpus weight
- curage
curage
50,413 corpus weight
- cédille
cédille
50,412 corpus weight
- céphalées
céphalées
50,411 corpus weight
- declare
declare
50,410 corpus weight
What this shows « cédille » 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 | cédille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.dij\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cédille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cédille (IPA \se.dij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,589 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Signe diacritique de l’alphabet latin en forme de crochet vers la gauche (‹ ◌̧ ›) comme la moitié inférieure de z wisigothique (duquel elle provient), de petit c culbuté ou parfois de petite virgul...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cédille, with forms such as "ccédille", "cdéille", and "cedille". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "celle", "couille", "Cyrille", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cédille, spelled C-É-D-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Signe diacritique de l’alphabet latin en forme de crochet vers la gauche (‹ ◌̧ ›) comme la moitié inférieure de z wisigothique (duquel elle provient), de petit c culbuté ou parfois de petite virgule souscrite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cédille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cédille s’utilise sous le c pour noter le son ‹ \s\ › devant a, o et u.
La Cédille est une virgule qu’on met sous le C, pour montrer que cette lettre se prononce comme la lettre S, dans ce mot ci et semblables : leçon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccédille
- cdéille
- cedille
- céddille
- cédile
- cédilel
- cédlile
- céidlle
- écdille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cédille - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).