cèdre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,508
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cèdre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce d’arbre du genre Cedrus, conifère de grande taille de la famille des Pinacées, aux branches horizontales en plans superposés et à cônes globuleux et dressés, souvent utilisé pour l’ornementa... Pronounced \sɛdʁ\. Often confused with CEE and Cré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cèdre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛdʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cèdre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛdʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,508 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cèdre, with forms such as "ccèdre", "cdère", and "cedre". 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, "CEE", "Cré", "cer", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cèdre, spelled C-È-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’arbre du genre Cedrus, conifère de grande taille de la famille des Pinacées, aux branches horizontales en plans superposés et à cônes globuleux et dressés, souvent utilisé pour l’ornementation et dont le bois passe pour incorruptible.
- 2Nom parfois donné à des arbres ayant une quelconque ressemblance avec les arbres du genre Cedrus, comme par exemple le cèdre d’Espagne.
- 3Espèce de conifères du genre Thuja sp. et en particulier Thuja occidentalis.
- 4Synonyme de acajou-amer (Cedrela odorata).
- 5Bois de cèdre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccèdre,cdère,cedre,cèddre,cèder,cèdrre,cèrde,ècdre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cèdre"
Frequency rank: #28,508 in French
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