cervelles
\sɛʁ.vɛl\
The verdict
“cervelles” is uncommon French (frequency #62,130 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,130
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cervelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cervelles · cervelles · French
cervelles · rank #62,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,130
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH censitaire
Nearest frequency peer: censitaire (-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 « cervelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carpette
carpette
37,874 corpus weight
- cathartique
cathartique
37,873 corpus weight
- censitaire
censitaire
37,872 corpus weight
- cervelles
cervelles
37,871 corpus weight
- chahut
chahut
37,869 corpus weight
- chaldéens
chaldéens
37,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cervelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cervelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cervelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cervelles is uncommon French at frequency #62,130 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.vɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cervelle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cervelles, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 cervelles, spelled C-E-R-V-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cervelle.
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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