cigarette
/ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/
"cigarette" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cigarette” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #6,449 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,449
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cigarette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cigarette” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for cigarette is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,449 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cigarette, with forms such as "ccigarette", "cgiarette", and "ciagrette". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarrobor. French cigare French -ette French cigarettebor. English cigarette Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By su… The correct English form is cigarette, spelled C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarrobor. French cigare French -ette French cigarettebor. English cigarette Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccigarette,cgiarette,ciagrette,cigaertte,cigarete,cigaretet,cigarrette,cigartete,ciggarette,cigraette,icgarette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cigarette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cigarette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.