cep
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,421
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cep is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pied de vigne, et plus largement tronc d'un arbuste. Pronounced \sɛp\. Often confused with ci and co.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cep is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛp\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,421 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cep in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "co", "Cm", 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 cep, spelled C-E-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pied de vigne, et plus largement tronc d'un arbuste.
- 2Pièce de bois ou de fer, fixée à l'age de la charrue, et qui porte le soc et le versoir.
- 3La même pièce pour la rasette.
- 4Pièce de l’ancre marine.
- 5Entrave de bois.
- 6Ancien type de menottes, instrument d’entrave enfermant le poignet d’un prisonnier dans un pont métallique fermé par une tige filetée droite. Surtout utilisé au pluriel.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #35,421 in French
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