cendrée
\sɑ̃.dʁe\
The verdict
“cendrée” is uncommon French (frequency #55,804 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,804
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écume de plomb. → voir masticant ^([1&2])
Corpus desk
Index FR-cendree · cendrée · French
cendrée · rank #55,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,804
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cem
Nearest frequency peer: cem (-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 « cendrée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- casta
casta
44,200 corpus weight
- cem
cem
44,198 corpus weight
- cendrée
cendrée
44,197 corpus weight
- cerro
cerro
44,196 corpus weight
- cervelet
cervelet
44,195 corpus weight
- chamade
chamade
44,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cendrée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cendrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.dʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cendrée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cendrée is uncommon French at frequency #55,804 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.dʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cendrée, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cendrée, spelled C-E-N-D-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Écume de plomb. → voir masticant ^([1&2])
- 2Petit plomb dont on se sert à la chasse du petit gibier ^([1&2]).
- 3Mélange de pierre à chaux et de cendres de charbon de terre, pour fabriquer un ciment ^([2]).
- 4Mélange de mâchefer et de sable servant à recouvrir les pistes de sport
- 5Piste cendrée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cendrée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme autour d’une desserte d’anthropophages, la famille accourut, se pencha sur le manteau où le jour brillait par cent trous, aussi ronds que si l’on eût mitraillé, à la cendrée, le drap fin.
La cendrée de Vincennes
Synonyms
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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