ciboire
\si.bwaʁ\
The verdict
“ciboire” is uncommon French (frequency #61,403 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,403
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coupe sacrée où l’on conserve les hosties pour la communion des fidèles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ciboire · ciboire · French
ciboire · rank #61,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,403
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chérit
Nearest frequency peer: chérit (-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 « ciboire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chiffonne
chiffonne
38,602 corpus weight
- chorégraphi…
chorégraphiques
38,601 corpus weight
- Christos
Christos
38,600 corpus weight
- chérit
chérit
38,599 corpus weight
- ciboire
ciboire
38,598 corpus weight
- citrus
citrus
38,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ciboire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciboire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.bwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ciboire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ciboire is uncommon French at frequency #61,403 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.bwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ciboire has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ciboire, spelled C-I-B-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Coupe sacrée où l’on conserve les hosties pour la communion des fidèles.
- 2Meuble représentant la coupe du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de calice, coupe et hanap.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ciboire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’aide d’un de ces instruments, il ouvrit le tabernacle, en tirant d’abord le saint-ciboire, magnifique coupe de vieil argent, ciselée sous Henri II, puis un ostensoir massif.
L’orfèvre. – Si j’étais un grand artiste, j’aimerais les princes, parce qu’eux seuls peuvent faire entreprendre de grands travaux ; les grands artistes n’ont pas de patrie ; moi, je fais des saints ciboires et des poignées d’épée.
This word in other languages
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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