cicatrise
\si.ka.tʁiz\
The verdict
“cicatrise” is uncommon French (frequency #69,686 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,686
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cicatriser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cicatrise · cicatrise · French
cicatrise · rank #69,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,686
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chuchotant
Nearest frequency peer: chuchotant (-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 « cicatrise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chti
chti
30,317 corpus weight
- chuchotant
chuchotant
30,316 corpus weight
- cicatrise
cicatrise
30,315 corpus weight
- cimier
cimier
30,314 corpus weight
- cirée
cirée
30,313 corpus weight
- cithare
cithare
30,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cicatrise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cicatrise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ka.tʁiz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cicatrise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cicatrise is uncommon French at frequency #69,686 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ka.tʁiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cicatrise in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cicatrise, spelled C-I-C-A-T-R-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cicatriser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cicatriser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe cicatriser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe cicatriser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe cicatriser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cicatrise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sulfate de fer, comme on a déjà vu, tend à devenir une panacée, il cicatrise, il consolide, invigorise, déchlorose, etc.
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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