cig
\siɡ\
The verdict
“cig” is uncommon French (frequency #62,139 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,139
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cigarette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cig · cig · French
cig · rank #62,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,139
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choyé
Nearest frequency peer: choyé (-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 « cig »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chauffages
chauffages
37,865 corpus weight
- chirurgienne
chirurgienne
37,864 corpus weight
- choyé
choyé
37,863 corpus weight
- cig
cig
37,862 corpus weight
- cinématogra…
cinématographe
37,861 corpus weight
- classait
classait
37,860 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cig » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cig » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cig is uncommon French at frequency #62,139 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \siɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cigarette.".
cig doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cig, spelled C-I-G.
Definition
- 1Cigarette.
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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