cendrillon
\sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\
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
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Femme ou jeune fille qui ne quitte guère la maison et à qui les siens abandonnent les besognes ménagères les plus humbles.
| 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) |
Where “cendrillon” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cendrillon (IPA \sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,678 among 257,141 “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
- 1Femme ou jeune fille qui ne quitte guère la maison et à qui les siens abandonnent les besognes ménagères les plus humbles.
- 2Jeune fille de condition modeste en charge des travaux pénibles et mal considérée, à qui il arrive un destin favorable aussi inattendu qu’inespéré.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “cendrillon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-N-D-R-I-L-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.