cibler
\si.ble\
The verdict
“cibler” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,320
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lancer quelque chose sur quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cibler · cibler · French
cibler · rank #16,320 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,320
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Christina
Nearest frequency peer: Christina (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cibler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- changée
changée
83,684 corpus weight
- charpentier
charpentier
83,683 corpus weight
- Christina
Christina
83,682 corpus weight
- cibler
cibler
83,681 corpus weight
- civiques
civiques
83,680 corpus weight
- classements
classements
83,679 corpus weight
What this shows « cibler » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | cibler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ble\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cibler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cibler (IPA \si.ble\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,320 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cibler, with forms such as "cbiler", "ccibler", and "cibbler". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "citer", "cirer", "couler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cibler, spelled C-I-B-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lancer quelque chose sur quelqu’un.
- 2Choisir.
- 3Viser, chercher à atteindre un public particulier, des cibles particulières, etc. ^([1])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cibler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si quelqu'un peut m'aider à cibler le problème, ce serait grandement apprécié.
Notre vaccin bivalent cible le variant BA1, mais il se révèle aussi efficace pour les autres sous-lignages BA4 et BA5.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbiler
- ccibler
- cibbler
- cibelr
- ciblerr
- cibller
- ciblre
- cilber
- icbler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cibler - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cibler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).