cicatrise
\si.ka.tʁiz\
The verdict
“cicatrise” is uncommon French (frequency #69,686 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,686
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cicatriser.
| 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) |
Where “cicatrise” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cicatrise is uncommon French at frequency #69,686 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “cicatrise”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-I-C-A-T-R-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.ka.tʁiz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.