cerceaux
\sɛʁ.so\
The verdict
“cerceaux” is uncommon French (frequency #71,345 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,345
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cerceau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cerceaux · cerceaux · French
cerceaux · rank #71,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,345
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cellini
Nearest frequency peer: Cellini (-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 « cerceaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CCNE
CCNE
28,658 corpus weight
- Cellini
Cellini
28,657 corpus weight
- cerceaux
cerceaux
28,656 corpus weight
- cervin
cervin
28,655 corpus weight
- chambouleme…
chamboulement
28,654 corpus weight
- chastain
chastain
28,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cerceaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerceaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cerceaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cerceaux is uncommon French at frequency #71,345 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cerceau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cerceaux, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cerceaux, spelled C-E-R-C-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cerceau.
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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