cit
/sɪt/
"cit" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,177) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,177
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cit · cit · English
cit · rank #33,177 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,177
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH circumcised
Nearest frequency peer: circumcised (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “cit”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- cilantro
cilantro
66,826 corpus weight
- circumcised
circumcised
66,825 corpus weight
- cit
cit
66,824 corpus weight
- civics
civics
66,823 corpus weight
- clamped
clamped
66,822 corpus weight
- claps
claps
66,821 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “cit” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “cit”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cit is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /sɪt/. Frequency #33,177 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Gloss: "a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cit, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CM", "CT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of citizen. The correct English form is cit, spelled C-I-T.
Definition
- 1a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] the women of quality are frightened to see merchants wives and daughters dressed like themselves: this impudence of the city, they cry, is intolerable; mantua-makers are sent for, and the contrivance of fashions becomes all their study, that they may have always new modes ready to take up, as soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in be…
Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.
Etymology
Clipping of citizen.
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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