ceinte
\sɛ̃t\
The verdict
“ceinte” is uncommon French (frequency #82,777 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,777
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rebord d’un navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ceinte · ceinte · French
ceinte · rank #82,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,777
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ceder
Nearest frequency peer: ceder (-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 « ceinte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cataclysmiq…
cataclysmique
17,227 corpus weight
- catéchumènes
catéchumènes
17,226 corpus weight
- ceder
ceder
17,225 corpus weight
- ceinte
ceinte
17,224 corpus weight
- celu
celu
17,223 corpus weight
- centrifugeu…
centrifugeuses
17,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ceinte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceinte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ceinte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ceinte is uncommon French at frequency #82,777 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rebord d’un navire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ceinte, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ceinte, spelled C-E-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Rebord d’un navire.
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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