cendres

/\sɑ̃dʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,409

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

cendres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de cendre. Pronounced \sɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #7,409 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cérès and centre.

Key facts for cendres
PropertyValue
Headwordcendres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃dʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,409
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cendres in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cendres is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,409 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de cendre.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cendres, with forms such as "ccendres", "cednres", and "cenddres". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

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 cendres, spelled C-E-N-D-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de cendre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccendres,cednres,cenddres,cenders,cendress,cendrres,cendrse,cenndres,cenrdes,cnedres,ecndres

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cendres

Misspelling Variants of "cendres"

ccendres8cednres7cenddres8cenders7cendress8cendrres8cendrse7cenndres8
Misspelling Variants of "cendres"

Frequency rank: #7,409 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cendres"?
"cendres" is spelled C-E-N-D-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃dʁ\.
What does "cendres" mean?
As a noun, "cendres" means: Pluriel de cendre.
What words are commonly confused with "cendres"?
"cendres" is commonly confused with "Cérès", "centre", "censés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cendres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cendres" is \sɑ̃dʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cendres" come from?
"cendres" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.