cépage

\se.paʒ\

/\se.paʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cépage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,612
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plant, variété ou clone de vigne cultivée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cepage · cépage · French

cépage · rank #25,612 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,612
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cupidité

Nearest frequency peer: cupidité (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cépage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cépage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

cépage vs CPGE
0% similar
cépage vs codage
67% similar
cépage vs Cesare
33% similar

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

Key facts for cépage
PropertyValue
Headwordcépage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.paʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#25,612
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cépage »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cépagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cupidité » (#25,611), « côtières » (#25,613), « correctionnelle » (#25,608). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cépage » est au #25,612. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around cépage (IPA \se.paʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,612 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plant, variété ou clone de vigne cultivée.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cépage, with forms such as "ccépage", "cepage", and "cpéage". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "CPGE", "codage", "Cesare", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cépage, spelled C-É-P-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plant, variété ou clone de vigne cultivée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une cuvée originale à base de cépages locaux, le sémillon en sélection massale et le sauvignon, mais également avec 20 % de chenin, cépage ligérien planté récemment.
  2. Le Bacchus, qui provient d'un semis de Clinton, est un cépage d'avenir pour la culture en treillages dans les sols profonds.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccépage
  • cepage
  • cpéage
  • céapge
  • cépaeg
  • cépagge
  • cépgae
  • céppage
  • écpage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cépage - 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.

ccépage1cepage1cpéage2céapge2cépaeg2cépagge1cépgae2céppage1
Edit distance from "cépage"

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 "cépage"?
"cépage" is spelled C-É-P-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \se.paʒ\.
What does "cépage" mean?
As a noun, "cépage" means: Plant, variété ou clone de vigne cultivée.
What words are commonly confused with "cépage"?
"cépage" is commonly confused with "CPGE", "codage", "Cesare". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cépage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cépage" is \se.paʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cépage" come from?
"cépage" 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 "cépage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

exempt9 variantsfracas9 variantsbelieve9 variantsassigner9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list