cicatrice
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,373
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
cicatrice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Marque des blessures, des plaies, qui reste après la guérison. Pronounced \si.ka.tʁis\. Often confused with créatrice and cicatrices.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cicatrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ka.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cicatrice is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ka.tʁis\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,373 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cicatrice, with forms such as "cciatrice", "ccicatrice", and "ciactrice". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "créatrice", "cicatrices", "cicatriser", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cicatrice, spelled C-I-C-A-T-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marque des blessures, des plaies, qui reste après la guérison.
- 2Ce qui a blessé profondément notre âme, notre amour-propre, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cciatrice,ccicatrice,ciactrice,cicartice,cicatirce,cicatrcie,cicatricce,cicatriec,cicatrrice,cicattrice,ciccatrice,cictarice,iccatrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cicatrice"
Frequency rank: #17,373 in French
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