intercéder
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.se.de\
The verdict
“intercéder” is uncommon French (frequency #66,019 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,019
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prier, solliciter pour quelqu’un, afin de lui procurer quelque bien ou de le garantir de quelque mal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interceder · intercéder · French
intercéder · rank #66,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,019
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH installaient
Nearest frequency peer: installaient (-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 « intercéder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- iniquités
iniquités
33,985 corpus weight
- insolents
insolents
33,984 corpus weight
- installaient
installaient
33,983 corpus weight
- intercéder
intercéder
33,982 corpus weight
- interdisons
interdisons
33,981 corpus weight
- interrogea
interrogea
33,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intercéder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intercéder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.se.de\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intercéder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intercéder is uncommon French at frequency #66,019 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.se.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prier, solliciter pour quelqu’un, afin de lui procurer quelque bien ou de le garantir de quelque mal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for intercéder in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 intercéder, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-É-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prier, solliciter pour quelqu’un, afin de lui procurer quelque bien ou de le garantir de quelque mal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intercéder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous ces tuiles et ces lattes disjointes, quatre chrétiens allaient intercéder auprès de Dieu pour un Roi de France, et faire son convoi sans cercueil.
C’est qu’il a une faveur à me demander : celle d’intercéder pour lui auprès de l’omnipotent grand vizir. Car il paraît qu’il est assez mal noté en haut lieu et il craint de perdre son poste.
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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