cigarette
cig·a·rette/ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/noun, verb
cigarette is spelled C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E, 3 syllables: cig·a·rette. The wrong spelling people search most is cigarrette: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 34 of all searches for the word. Cigarette is a noun meaning “A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for…”. The plural of cigarette is cigarettes.
How many letters and syllables are in cigarette?
| Letters | 9: C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: cig·a·rette |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cigarrette, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell cigarette?
Cigarette is spelled C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for cigarette in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is cigarette?
Cigarette appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce cigarette?
- US /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/
- US /sɪɡəˈɹɛt/
- Australia /ˈsɪɡəɹet/
Cigarette has 3 syllables, split cig·a·rette in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cigarette.ogg, En-uk-cigarette.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cigarette
- cigarettes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cigaretting participle, present
- cigaretted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cigarette mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
verb
- 1
rareslangTo give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.
Could someone cigarette me?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cigarette in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense thin roll of tobacco made for smoking:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cigarette |
| German | Zigarette, Kippe |
| Portuguese | cigarro |
| Spanish | cigarrillo, pitillo, bambán |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cigarette come from?
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).