cendrillon

Name: cendrillon, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\

/\sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“cendrillon” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,678
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 14
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ou jeune fille qui ne quitte guère la maison et à qui les siens abandonnent les besognes ménagères les plus humbles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cendrillon · cendrillon · French

cendrillon · rank #18,678 · 14 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #18,678
LEN-MEGA 10 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 14 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH card

Nearest frequency peer: card (-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.

brother

81,326
cagnotte

81,325
card

81,324
cendrillon

81,323
CEO

81,322
chalon

81,321

What this shows « cendrillon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for cendrillon
Property	Value
Headword	cendrillon
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\
Letters	10
Frequency rank	#18,678
Misspellings tracked	14
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cendrillon »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cendrillonse place ici:

#18,678

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « card » (#18,677), « CEO » (#18,679), « cagnotte » (#18,676). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cendrillon » est au #18,678. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around cendrillon (IPA \sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,678 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cendrillon, with forms such as "ccendrillon", "cednrillon", and "cenddrillon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cendrillon, spelled C-E-N-D-R-I-L-L-O-N.

Definition

1
Femme ou jeune fille qui ne quitte guère la maison et à qui les siens abandonnent les besognes ménagères les plus humbles.
2
Jeune fille de condition modeste en charge des travaux pénibles et mal considérée, à qui il arrive un destin favorable aussi inattendu qu’inespéré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cendrillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

C’est la cendrillon de la maison.

This word in other languages

Aschenputtel(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ccendrillon
cednrillon
cenddrillon
cendirllon
cendrillno
cendrillonn
cendriloln
cendrilon
cendrlilon
cendrrillon
cenndrillon
cenrdillon
cnedrillon
ecndrillon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cendrillon - 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.

Edit distance from "cendrillon"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cendrillon"?

"cendrillon" is spelled C-E-N-D-R-I-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\.

What does "cendrillon" mean?

As a noun, "cendrillon" means: Femme ou jeune fille qui ne quitte guère la maison et à qui les siens abandonnent les besognes ménagères les plus humbles.

What are common misspellings of "cendrillon"?

Common misspellings include "ccendrillon", "cednrillon", "cenddrillon", "cendirllon", "cendrillno". The correct spelling is "cendrillon".

How do you pronounce "cendrillon"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cendrillon" is \sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "cendrillon" come from?

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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cendrillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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