cidre de glace

\si.dʁə də ɡlas\

/\si.dʁə də ɡlas\/ noun

The verdict

“cidre de glace” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cidre dont la fermentation s’effectue sur un jus de pomme concentré par l’action du froid naturel.

Key facts for cidre de glace
PropertyValue
Headwordcidre de glace
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.dʁə də ɡlas\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cidre de glace” sits in French frequency

cidre de glace falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cidre de glace is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.dʁə də ɡlas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cidre dont la fermentation s’effectue sur un jus de pomme concentré par l’action du froid naturel.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cidre de glace in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.

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 cidre de glace, spelled C-I-D-R-E- -D-E- -G-L-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cidre dont la fermentation s’effectue sur un jus de pomme concentré par l’action du froid naturel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cidre de glace"?
"cidre de glace" is spelled C-I-D-R-E- -D-E- -G-L-A-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.dʁə də ɡlas\.
What does "cidre de glace" mean?
As a noun, "cidre de glace" means: Cidre dont la fermentation s’effectue sur un jus de pomme concentré par l’action du froid naturel.
How do you pronounce "cidre de glace"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cidre de glace" is \si.dʁə də ɡlas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “cidre de glace”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-I-D-R-E- -D-E- -G-L-A-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \si.dʁə də ɡlas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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