cia
The verdict
“cia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,940) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,940
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pencher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cia · cia · French
cia · rank #7,940 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,940
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH call
Nearest frequency peer: call (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cia »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- brute
brute
92,064 corpus weight
- caire
caire
92,063 corpus weight
- call
call
92,062 corpus weight
- cia
cia
92,061 corpus weight
- ciné
ciné
92,060 corpus weight
- claque
claque
92,059 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cia » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | cia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cia »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cia is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "Cm", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #7,940 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Pencher.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cia, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "Cm", "CV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cia, spelled C-I-A.
Definition
- 1Pencher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aya bia ti cia.
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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