cerdan
\sɛʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“cerdan” is uncommon French (frequency #72,998 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,998
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Cerdagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cerdan · cerdan · French
cerdan · rank #72,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,998
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chalandon
Nearest frequency peer: Chalandon (+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 « cerdan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- casqué
casqué
27,006 corpus weight
- Cassano
Cassano
27,005 corpus weight
- cerdan
cerdan
27,003 corpus weight
- Chalandon
Chalandon
27,002 corpus weight
- Champsaur
Champsaur
27,001 corpus weight
- changerons
changerons
27,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cerdan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerdan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cerdan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cerdan is uncommon French at frequency #72,998 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɛʁ.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la Cerdagne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cerdan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is cerdan, spelled C-E-R-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Cerdagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cerdan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Coup dur en Cerdagne, où « La Perle Cerdane » ne pourra plus héberger les enfants !
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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