cep

\sɛp\

/\sɛp\/ noun

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The verdict

“cep” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,421) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#35,421
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pied de vigne, et plus largement tronc d'un arbuste.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cep · cep · French

cep · rank #35,421 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,421
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH centrées

Nearest frequency peer: centrées (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cep »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « cep » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cep vs ci
33% similar
cep vs co
33% similar
cep vs Cm
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cep
PropertyValue
Headwordcep
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛp\
Letters3
Frequency rank#35,421
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cep »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cepse place ici:

#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 « centrées » (#35,420), « chape » (#35,422), « charrier » (#35,423). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cep » est au #35,421. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for cep is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sɛp\. Frequency #35,421 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

cep has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cep, spelled C-E-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pied de vigne, et plus largement tronc d'un arbuste.
  2. 2
    Pièce de bois ou de fer, fixée à l'age de la charrue, et qui porte le soc et le versoir.
  3. 3
    La même pièce pour la rasette.
  4. 4
    Pièce de l’ancre marine.
  5. 5
    Entrave de bois.
  6. 6
    Ancien 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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’échalassement , s'il est mal soigné , nuit à tous les ceps , mais sur-tout aux jeunes ; ils sont trop foibles pour se soutenir par eux-mêmes, […].
  2. Je remarque que les vignes françaises franches de pied (du reste il n'y en a pas d'autres, à l’exception de deux ou trois ceps d’Isabelle, cépage que l'on sait n'être pas résistant au phylloxéra et qui est vigoureux), à leur deuxième feuille sont aussi belles, […], que les plus beaux greffés de deux ans […].

This word in other languages

vine(English)Rebstock(Deutsch)

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 "cep"?
"cep" is spelled C-E-P. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛp\.
What does "cep" mean?
As a noun, "cep" means: Pied de vigne, et plus largement tronc d'un arbuste.
What words are commonly confused with "cep"?
"cep" is commonly confused with "ci", "co", "Cm". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cep"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cep" is \sɛp\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cep" come from?
"cep" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bow#35,405aim#35,360UDC#35,319GPU#35,527

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list