ceviche
\se.vi.tʃe\
The verdict
“ceviche” is uncommon French (frequency #90,526 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,526
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marinade de poissons, de jus de citron vert et d’oignons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ceviche · ceviche · French
ceviche · rank #90,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,526
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cesserons
Nearest frequency peer: cesserons (-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 « ceviche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caustiques
caustiques
9,480 corpus weight
- CEMA
CEMA
9,478 corpus weight
- cesserons
cesserons
9,476 corpus weight
- ceviche
ceviche
9,475 corpus weight
- chanoinesses
chanoinesses
9,473 corpus weight
- chapelains
chapelains
9,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ceviche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceviche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.vi.tʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ceviche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ceviche is uncommon French at frequency #90,526 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.vi.tʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marinade de poissons, de jus de citron vert et d’oignons.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ceviche, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 ceviche, spelled C-E-V-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Marinade de poissons, de jus de citron vert et d’oignons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ceviche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ceviche, plat national du Pérou, est l’une des valeurs fondamentales du patrimoine de cette nation.
L’ex-Top Chef, qui a ouvert l’an dernier Bazurto, un restaurant colombien à Paris (6ᵉ), et vient de sortir Recuerdame (éd. First), aime servir à table des empanadas, un ceviche ou encore des plats à base de triguisar.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).