cer
\ˈʧeɾ\
The verdict
“cer” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,052) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,052
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cer · cer · French
cer · rank #46,052 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,052
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH champagnes
Nearest frequency peer: champagnes (+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 « cer »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Carle
Carle
53,952 corpus weight
- carpes
carpes
53,951 corpus weight
- cer
cer
53,949 corpus weight
- champagnes
champagnes
53,948 corpus weight
- chandeliers
chandeliers
53,947 corpus weight
- changeaient
changeaient
53,946 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cer » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʧeɾ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cer »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cer is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈʧeɾ\. Frequency #46,052 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Ciel.".
cer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cer, spelled C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ciel.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).