cerfeuil
\sɛʁ.fœj\
The verdict
“cerfeuil” is uncommon French (frequency #84,624 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,624
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante potagère annuelle aromatique de la famille des Apiacées (ou Ombellifères) qui est employée dans la cuisine comme assaisonnement ou comme ingrédient dans des potages et dont le nom scientifiq...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cerfeuil · cerfeuil · French
cerfeuil · rank #84,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,624
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH censurent
Nearest frequency peer: censurent (-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 « cerfeuil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- celluloïd
celluloïd
15,380 corpus weight
- cenne
cenne
15,379 corpus weight
- censurent
censurent
15,378 corpus weight
- cerfeuil
cerfeuil
15,377 corpus weight
- Chabaud
Chabaud
15,375 corpus weight
- chalandise
chalandise
15,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cerfeuil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerfeuil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.fœj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cerfeuil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cerfeuil is uncommon French at frequency #84,624 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.fœj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cerfeuil, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cerfeuil, spelled C-E-R-F-E-U-I-L.
Definition
- 1Plante potagère annuelle aromatique de la famille des Apiacées (ou Ombellifères) qui est employée dans la cuisine comme assaisonnement ou comme ingrédient dans des potages et dont le nom scientifique est Anthriscus cerefolium (L.) Hoffm.
- 2Nom donné à d'autres Apiacées que Anthriscus cerefolium citée au dessus, notamment de nombreuses plantes du genre Chaerophyllum dont certaines sont comestibles (par ex.cerfeuil tubéreux) et d'autres toxiques (par ex. cerfeuil des fous).
- 3Nom donné à d'autres Apiacées que Anthriscus cerefolium citée en premier, notamment à Myrrhis odorata connu sous les noms de cerfeuil musqué, cerfeuil anisé ou cerfeuil d'Espagne qui est une plante comestible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cerfeuil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plante herbacée annuelle au feuillage triangulaire, léger et finement dentelé, le cerfeuil est indigène du sud-est de l’Europe et du Caucase, en Asie centrale.
This word in other languages
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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