céphalée
\se.fa.le\
The verdict
“céphalée” is uncommon French (frequency #83,757 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,757
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mal de tête, violent et opiniâtre, parfois périodique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cephalee · céphalée · French
céphalée · rank #83,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,757
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH céladon
Nearest frequency peer: céladon (-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 « céphalée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuvelier
cuvelier
16,247 corpus weight
- cytochrome
cytochrome
16,246 corpus weight
- céladon
céladon
16,245 corpus weight
- céphalée
céphalée
16,244 corpus weight
- céramistes
céramistes
16,243 corpus weight
- Dafoe
Dafoe
16,241 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « céphalée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | céphalée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.fa.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « céphalée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
céphalée is uncommon French at frequency #83,757 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.fa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for céphalée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is céphalée, spelled C-É-P-H-A-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Mal de tête, violent et opiniâtre, parfois périodique.
- 2Céphalalgie chronique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how céphalée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers onze heures, le malade fait 39 degrés avec violent frisson durant vingt minutes environ, avec céphalée violente et sudation abondante.
Seront plus précisément abordés la fréquence et la durée des céphalées, les facteurs déclenchants, les symptômes, la sévérité de la douleur et l’impact sur la vie quotidienne.
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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