cierge
\sjɛʁʒ\
The verdict
“cierge” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,344
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chandelle de cire à l’usage de l’église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cierge · cierge · French
cierge · rank #43,344 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,344
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CICR
Nearest frequency peer: CICR (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cierge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chorales
chorales
56,660 corpus weight
- CICR
CICR
56,658 corpus weight
- cierge
cierge
56,657 corpus weight
- circonscrire
circonscrire
56,655 corpus weight
- citerai
citerai
56,654 corpus weight
- collab
collab
56,653 corpus weight
What this shows « cierge » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cierge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cierge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cierge (IPA \sjɛʁʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,344 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cierge, with forms such as "ccierge", "ceirge", and "ciegre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cire", "Circé", "clergé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cierge, spelled C-I-E-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Chandelle de cire à l’usage de l’église.
- 2Plante d'Amérique du Sud appartenant au genre Cereus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cierge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Art. 23. — Il est établi sur l’acide stéarique, et autres matières à l'état de bougies ou de cierges, un droit de consommation intérieure, fixé en principal à 25 fr. les 100 kilogrammes.
À cette heure matinale, sous la lumière grise que laissaient tomber les hautes et minces baies, des messes de supplication étaient déjà dites à plusieurs autels, des cierges d’imploration brûlaient au fond de l’abside.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccierge
- ceirge
- ciegre
- ciereg
- ciergge
- cierrge
- cirege
- icerge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cierge - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).