ede

noun

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The verdict

“ede” is uncommon French (frequency #77,471 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,471
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de aé (« âgé »).

Corpus desk

Index FR-ede · ede · French

ede · rank #77,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,471
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH edin

Nearest frequency peer: edin (+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 « ede »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ede » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ede
PropertyValue
Headwordede
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#77,471
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ede » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).edetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « edin » (#77,472), « ECTS » (#77,469), « Edmée » (#77,474). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « ede » est au #77,471. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ede is uncommon French at frequency #77,471 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de aé (« âgé »).".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ede, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 ede, spelled E-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de aé (« âgé »).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ede appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Del quart ede pois i vint reiz David

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ede"?
"ede" is spelled E-D-E.
What does "ede" mean?
As a noun, "ede" means: Variante de aé (« âgé »).
What language does "ede" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ede", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

efe#77,475DTC#77,436DDD#77,410GCC#77,550

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list