cendré
\sɑ̃.dʁe\
The verdict
“cendré” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,832
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de la couleur de la cendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cendre · cendré · French
cendré · rank #43,832 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,832
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cataractes
Nearest frequency peer: cataractes (-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 « cendré »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Castelnauda…
Castelnaudary
56,172 corpus weight
- catalyseurs
catalyseurs
56,171 corpus weight
- cataractes
cataractes
56,170 corpus weight
- cendré
cendré
56,169 corpus weight
- cerceau
cerceau
56,168 corpus weight
- cessant
cessant
56,167 corpus weight
What this shows « cendré » 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 | cendré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.dʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cendré »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cendré (IPA \sɑ̃.dʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,832 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cendré, with forms such as "ccendré", "cednré", and "cenddré". 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, "censé", "cidre", "conde", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cendré, spelled C-E-N-D-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est de la couleur de la cendre.
- 2Qui est recouvert de cendre, enveloppé dans la cendre.
- 3Voir de cendré.
- 4Poli cendré : poli ayant de petits défauts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cendré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un fromage cendré.
Un polissoir trop tendre produira sur la surface polie de menus défauts connus dans le métier sous le nom de poli cendré.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccendré
- cednré
- cenddré
- cendre
- cendrré
- cendér
- cenndré
- cenrdé
- cnedré
- ecndré
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cendré - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cendré", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).