ci-haut
\si o\
The verdict
“ci-haut” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans ce qui a été dit, écrit, exposé plus haut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ci-haut · ci-haut · French
ci-haut · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ci-haut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si o\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ci-haut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ci-haut is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans ce qui a été dit, écrit, exposé plus haut.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ci-haut in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ci-haut, spelled C-I---H-A-U-T.
Definition
- 1Dans ce qui a été dit, écrit, exposé plus haut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ci-haut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je crois au contraire que l’ordonnance rédigée dans les termes ci-hauts cités est susceptible d’exécution.
Toutefois, quoi qu’il en soit des aspects positifs de ces faits, ce que l’on doit reconnaître avec loyauté est que ces faits ci-hauts évoqués ne conduisirent pas au succès que l’on estimerait total ni au rayonnement que l’on jugerait fulgurant et sans taches de la mission qui en était venue à l’extinction.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.