cenne
\sɛn\
The verdict
“cenne” is uncommon French (frequency #84,622 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,622
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cent, centième de dollar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cenne · cenne · French
cenne · rank #84,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,622
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH celluloïd
Nearest frequency peer: celluloïd (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cenne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cattenom
Cattenom
15,382 corpus weight
- Cavill
Cavill
15,381 corpus weight
- celluloïd
celluloïd
15,380 corpus weight
- cenne
cenne
15,379 corpus weight
- censurent
censurent
15,378 corpus weight
- cerfeuil
cerfeuil
15,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cenne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cenne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cenne is uncommon French at frequency #84,622 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cenne in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cenne, spelled C-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Cent, centième de dollar.
- 2Cendre.
- 3Celui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cenne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’étais comme folle. J’avais pas une cenne dans la maison et le propriétaire voulait absolument que j’y donne quelque chose, n’importe quoi.
Mon grand-père Alban m’y raconte, du plus loin que ses neurones se remémorent, la Gaspésie d’une époque révolue. […] Il arrondit son salaire de 35 cennes de l’heure avec le métier d’écrivain public : « J’étais allé à l’école jusqu’à dix ans. Les gars savaient pas écrire, oublie pas ça ! J’écrivais à leurs femmes. Dix cennes la lettre. […] »
Synonyms
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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