édredon
\e.dʁə.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“édredon” is uncommon French (frequency #85,403 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,403
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Duvet d’une espèce de canard des pays septentrionaux, l’eider, qui sert à faire des couvre-pieds, des couvertures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edredon · édredon · French
édredon · rank #85,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,403
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écrémage
Nearest frequency peer: écrémage (-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 « édredon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échangèrent
échangèrent
14,601 corpus weight
- écrivions
écrivions
14,600 corpus weight
- écrémage
écrémage
14,599 corpus weight
- édredon
édredon
14,598 corpus weight
- égoïsmes
égoïsmes
14,597 corpus weight
- élançant
élançant
14,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « édredon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | édredon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.dʁə.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « édredon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
édredon is uncommon French at frequency #85,403 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.dʁə.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
édredon has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is édredon, spelled É-D-R-E-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Duvet d’une espèce de canard des pays septentrionaux, l’eider, qui sert à faire des couvre-pieds, des couvertures.
- 2Couvre-pied fait avec ce duvet et toute couverture formée de duvet.
- 3Ce qui protège et amollit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how édredon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fond du lit est en planches; on a pour matelas de l’édredon, pour oreiller de l’édredon, toujours de l’édredon, ce qui ne le rend pas meilleur.
Ces îlots, constitués de basalte, servent de repaires à des myriades d’eiders qui nichent dans les rochers. Ces oiseaux donnent le précieux duvet connu sous le nom d’édredon, et sont la principale ressource des habitants : la loi défend de les tuer.
Synonyms
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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