cendrier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,335
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
cendrier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du fourneau qui est au-dessous de la grille ou du foyer, et dans laquelle tombent les cendres du bois ou du charbon. Pronounced \sɑ̃.dʁi.je\. Often confused with centrer and cendré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cendrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.dʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cendrier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.dʁi.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,335 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for cendrier, with forms such as "ccendrier", "cednrier", and "cenddrier". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "centrer", "cendré", "cendres", 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 cendrier, spelled C-E-N-D-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie du fourneau qui est au-dessous de la grille ou du foyer, et dans laquelle tombent les cendres du bois ou du charbon.
- 2Espace au-dessous du foyer d’une locomotive à vapeur, où tombent les cendres et escarbilles.
- 3Petite coupe où l’on dépose les cendres d’un cigare, d’une cigarette, d’une pipe, etc.
- 4Grand sac de coton, tissé serré, dans lequel on mettait les cendres qui servaient à préparer l’eau de lessive.
- 5Grand carré de toile utilisé pour le transport du foin à dos d’homme.
- 6Vendeur de cendre pour la lessive.
- 7Récupérateur de corium.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccendrier,cednrier,cenddrier,cendirer,cendreir,cendrierr,cendrire,cendrrier,cenndrier,cenrdier,cnedrier,ecndrier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cendrier
Misspelling Variants of "cendrier"
Frequency rank: #32,335 in French
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