cierges
\sjɛʁʒ\
The verdict
“cierges” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,510
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cierge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cierges · cierges · French
cierges · rank #45,510 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,510
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châtellenie
Nearest frequency peer: châtellenie (-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 « cierges »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chevaline
chevaline
54,495 corpus weight
- chronologiq…
chronologiques
54,493 corpus weight
- châtellenie
châtellenie
54,492 corpus weight
- cierges
cierges
54,491 corpus weight
- climatologie
climatologie
54,490 corpus weight
- commencerais
commencerais
54,488 corpus weight
What this shows « cierges » 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 | cierges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cierges »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cierges (IPA \sjɛʁʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cierge.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cierges, with forms such as "ccierges", "ceirges", and "ciegres". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "clergé", "courges", "citernes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cierges, spelled C-I-E-R-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cierge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cierges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu encline à l’immobilisme et à la réclusion, elle sillonnait la ville et nous nous retrouvions à la terrasse du Cala au-dessus des galets gris et du vacarme des vagues, ou dans le quartier de Rímac au pied du Cerro San Cristóbal de l’autre côté du pont gardé par un blindé sur roues, ancien bourg colonial espagnol devenu cour des miracles, estropiés et c…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccierges
- ceirges
- ciegres
- cieregs
- ciergess
- ciergges
- ciergse
- cierrges
- cireges
- icerges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cierges - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).