cèpe
\sɛp\
The verdict
“cèpe” is uncommon French (frequency #94,676 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,676
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bolet comestible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cepe · cèpe · French
cèpe · rank #94,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,676
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cytologie
Nearest frequency peer: cytologie (-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 « cèpe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuver
cuver
5,328 corpus weight
- cyclomoteurs
cyclomoteurs
5,327 corpus weight
- cytologie
cytologie
5,326 corpus weight
- cèpe
cèpe
5,325 corpus weight
- cérumen
cérumen
5,323 corpus weight
- dandys
dandys
5,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cèpe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cèpe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cèpe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cèpe is uncommon French at frequency #94,676 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bolet comestible.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cèpe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cèpe, spelled C-È-P-E.
Definition
- 1Bolet comestible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cèpe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ménage avait le goût des curiosités gastronomiques, venues des quatre coins du monde. Cette fois, on se décida pour un potage queue de bœuf, des rougets de roche grillés, un filet aux cèpes, des raviolis à l’italienne, des gelinottes de Russie, et une salade de truffes, sans compter du caviar et des kilkis en hors-d’œuvre, une glace pralinée, un petit…
Georges, qui s’y connaissait, discerna des oronges, des cèpes, des morilles blanches et noires, des lactaires, des russules, des coprins chevelus, des chanterelles, des champignons de couche, des mousserons, des amanites rougeâtres, des columelles, des psalliotes champêtres, des psalliotes des jachères, de quoi approvisionner une petite ville pendant plus…
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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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