cerceau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,833
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
cerceau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lame de fer mince ou latte de bois flexible, formant un cercle, dont on se sert pour maintenir les douves des tonneaux, des cuves, etc. Pronounced \sɛʁ.so\. Often confused with cerveau and corbeau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cerceau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,833 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cerceau, with forms such as "ccerceau", "cecreau", and "cercaeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cerveau", "corbeau", "cerveaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cerceau, spelled C-E-R-C-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lame de fer mince ou latte de bois flexible, formant un cercle, dont on se sert pour maintenir les douves des tonneaux, des cuves, etc.
- 2Cercle de bois léger que les enfants font courir devant eux comme une roue, en le poussant avec un petit bâton.
- 3Bois courbés qui servent à soutenir la toile dont on couvre une voiture, une barque, ; cercles tendus de papier au travers desquels passent les acrobates, les faiseurs de tours.
- 4Différents objets qui forment seulement le demi-cercle ; arceau.
- 5Sorte de filet dont on se sert pour prendre des oiseaux.
- 6Extrémité des plumes du bout de l’aile de certains oiseaux de proie.
- 7Un des cinq engins utilisés en gymnastique rythmique.
- 8Un des agrès aériens utilisés par les circassiens.
- 9Volant de direction d’un véhicule.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccerceau,cecreau,cercaeu,cercceau,cerceua,cerecau,cerrceau,creceau,ecrceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cerceau
Misspelling Variants of "cerceau"
Frequency rank: #43,833 in French
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