census
The verdict
“census” is uncommon French (frequency #59,872 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,872
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Estimation, évaluation, cens quinquennal qui permet de fixer l'assiette fiscale des citoyens romains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-census · census · French
census · rank #59,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,872
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Caterina
Nearest frequency peer: Caterina (-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 « census »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cartographi…
cartographiques
40,132 corpus weight
- casi
casi
40,131 corpus weight
- Caterina
Caterina
40,130 corpus weight
- census
census
40,129 corpus weight
- Cernay
Cernay
40,128 corpus weight
- cessaient
cessaient
40,126 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « census » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | census |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « census » en français
Rare enough to double-check
census is uncommon French at frequency #59,872 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for census, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is census, spelled C-E-N-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Estimation, évaluation, cens quinquennal qui permet de fixer l'assiette fiscale des citoyens romains.
- 2Registres où sont consignées ces estimations.
- 3Richesse, biens, fortune, avoirs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how census appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
census agere.
Pontifices, augures Romulo regnante nulli erant; ab Numa Pompilio creati sunt. Census in civitate et discriptio centuriarum classiumque non erat; ab Ser. Tullio est facta.
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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