cradle
\ˈkɹeɪ.dl̩\
The verdict
“cradle” is uncommon French (frequency #61,428 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,428
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berceau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cradle · cradle · French
cradle · rank #61,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,428
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CPS
Nearest frequency peer: CPS (-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 « cradle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courtisée
courtisée
38,576 corpus weight
- couveuse
couveuse
38,575 corpus weight
- CPS
CPS
38,574 corpus weight
- cradle
cradle
38,573 corpus weight
- Crawley
Crawley
38,571 corpus weight
- creusait
creusait
38,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cradle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cradle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɹeɪ.dl̩\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cradle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cradle is uncommon French at frequency #61,428 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɹeɪ.dl̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Berceau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cradle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cradle, spelled C-R-A-D-L-E.
Definition
- 1Berceau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cradle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Amritsar is the cradle of Sikh culture in the Indian part of the Punjab.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).