cendres
\sɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“cendres” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,409. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,409
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cendres · cendres · French
cendres · rank #7,409 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,409
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cellulaire
Nearest frequency peer: cellulaire (-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 « cendres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- canaux
canaux
92,595 corpus weight
- cavalerie
cavalerie
92,594 corpus weight
- cellulaire
cellulaire
92,593 corpus weight
- cendres
cendres
92,592 corpus weight
- chapitres
chapitres
92,591 corpus weight
- composer
composer
92,589 corpus weight
What this shows « cendres » 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 | cendres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cendres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cendres (IPA \sɑ̃dʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,409 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cendres, with forms such as "ccendres", "cednres", and "cenddres". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Cérès", "centre", "censés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cendres, spelled C-E-N-D-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cendres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mal que font les hommes vit après eux ; le bien est souvent enseveli avec leurs cendres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccendres
- cednres
- cenddres
- cenders
- cendress
- cendrres
- cendrse
- cenndres
- cenrdes
- cnedres
- ecndres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cendres - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).