ciboulot
\si.bu.lo\
The verdict
“ciboulot” is uncommon French (frequency #82,788 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,788
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit oignon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ciboulot · ciboulot · French
ciboulot · rank #82,788 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,788
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choron
Nearest frequency peer: choron (-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 « ciboulot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chiasson
Chiasson
17,216 corpus weight
- Chokri
Chokri
17,215 corpus weight
- choron
choron
17,214 corpus weight
- ciboulot
ciboulot
17,213 corpus weight
- cinabre
cinabre
17,212 corpus weight
- circuleront
circuleront
17,211 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ciboulot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciboulot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.bu.lo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ciboulot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ciboulot is uncommon French at frequency #82,788 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.bu.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ciboulot, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 ciboulot, spelled C-I-B-O-U-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Petit oignon.
- 2Tête, cerveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ciboulot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand elle a quelque chose dans le ciboulot, elle l’a pas ailleurs ! : elle est têtue, opiniâtre.
Il a des drôles d’idées, ton père ! C’est le soleil d’Afrique qui lui a chauffé le ciboulot…
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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