sedes
\ˈse.ðes\
The verdict
“sedes” is uncommon French (frequency #86,168 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,168
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sed.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sedes · sedes · French
sedes · rank #86,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,168
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secrétairerie
Nearest frequency peer: secrétairerie (-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 « sedes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Scholz
Scholz
13,838 corpus weight
- scolari
scolari
13,837 corpus weight
- scripta
scripta
13,836 corpus weight
- secrétairer…
secrétairerie
13,834 corpus weight
- sedes
sedes
13,833 corpus weight
- sehr
sehr
13,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sedes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sedes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈse.ðes\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sedes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sedes is uncommon French at frequency #86,168 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈse.ðes\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sed.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sedes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sedes, spelled S-E-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sed.
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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