ceinture
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,052
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
ceinture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dispositif qui entoure. Pronounced \sɛ̃.tyʁ\. It ranks #4,052 in French word frequency. Often confused with centre and cintre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceinture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ceinture is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,052 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ceinture, with forms such as "cceinture", "ceinnture", and "ceintrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "centre", "cintre", "censure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ceinture, spelled C-E-I-N-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif qui entoure.
- 2Construction, plantation, aménagement qui clôture un espace.
- 3Petite moulure de profil carré au haut et au bas du fût d’une colonne auquel elle se joint par un congé.
- 4Poutraison en bois ou en béton posée sur les murs d’un bâtiment et servant d’assise à la charpente.
- 5Partie horizontale d’un meuble séparant le piétement du reste du meuble.
- 6Ruban de soie, de fil ou de cordon, bande de cuir, ou autre chose semblable, dont on se ceint la taille.
- 7Sorte de ruban de tissu coloré qui indique le niveau ou le grade du combattant.
- 8Ceinture hypertrophiée qui est décernée au détenteur du titre de chaque catégorie, tout particulièrement en boxe et en lutte.
- 9Corde tressée ceignant la taille des moines cordeliers.
- 10Dispositif qui entoure une partie du torse. → voir se serrer la ceinture et ceinture orthopédique
- 11Longue bourse en cuir qui se ceignait autour des reins et dont se servaient les voyageurs, les marchands.
- 12Partie d’un vêtement qui serre la taille.
- 13Endroit du corps où l’on situe la taille.
- 14Dispositif de maintien ou de sécurité d’une personne. → voir ceinture de sécurité et ceinture de chasteté
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cceinture,ceinnture,ceintrue,ceintture,ceintuer,ceinturre,ceinutre,ceitnure,ceniture,cienture,ecinture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ceinture
Misspelling Variants of "ceinture"
Frequency rank: #4,052 in French
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