Français homophones
citer/citez/cité/citée/citées
"citer" (#3,596 written frequency) beats "citez" (#30,525) in this 5-word /\si.te\/ cluster. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 5 spellings keep the same /\si.te\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "citer" leads at #3,596, with "citez" trailing at #30,525.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "citer" keeps r, "citez" writes z at letter 5.
- Shared stem "cit" then splits - "citer" (5 letters) vs "cité" (4).
- Shared stem "cit" then splits - "citer" (5 letters) vs "citée" (5).
- Shared stem "cit" then splits - "citer" (5 letters) vs "citées" (6).
- Shared stem "cit" then splits - "citez" (5 letters) vs "cité" (4).
- Shared stem "cit" then splits - "citez" (5 letters) vs "citée" (5).
- Shared stem "cit" then splits - "citez" (5 letters) vs "citées" (6).
- Shared stem "cité" then splits - "cité" (4 letters) vs "citée" (5).
- Shared stem "cité" then splits - "cité" (4 letters) vs "citées" (6).
- Shared stem "citée" then splits - "citée" (5 letters) vs "citées" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across citer, citez, cité, citée, citées: cit. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
citer
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory ceirt · private er
citez
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory ceitz · private ez
cité
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory cité · private é
citée
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV
Inventory ceité · private eé
citées
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVVC
Inventory ceisté · private esé
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "citer" when you mean: Assigner à comparaître devant une juridiction civile ou religieuse.
- Write "citez" when you mean: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe citer.
- Write "cité" when you mean: Ville, surtout quand on veut en faire ressortir l’importance.
- Write "citée" when you mean: Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe citer.
- Write "citées" when you mean: Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe citer.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
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