cigale
\si.ɡal\
The verdict
“cigale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,744
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insecte ailé de la famille des cicadidés, commun dans les régions méditerranéennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cigale · cigale · French
cigale · rank #32,744 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,744
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chérif
Nearest frequency peer: chérif (-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 « cigale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chinon
Chinon
67,259 corpus weight
- chérif
chérif
67,258 corpus weight
- cigale
cigale
67,257 corpus weight
- cime
cime
67,256 corpus weight
- cirques
cirques
67,255 corpus weight
- cocasse
cocasse
67,254 corpus weight
What this shows « cigale » 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 | cigale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cigale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cigale (IPA \si.ɡal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,744 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cigale, with forms such as "ccigale", "cgiale", and "ciagle". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "civile", "cigare", "circle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cigale, spelled C-I-G-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Insecte ailé de la famille des cicadidés, commun dans les régions méditerranéennes.
- 2Personne qui ne se soucie guère de l’avenir, en opposition à la fourmi et en référence à la fable de La Fontaine.
- 3Manille fixée sur le jas d'une ancre pour y fixer une chaîne ou un câble, organeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cigale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cigale produit un bruit strident et monotone, le chant des cigales, grâce à un organe phonatoire spécialisé, les cymbales, qui est situé dans son abdomen. Le chant, appelé cymbalisation, est le résultat de la déformation d’une membrane (un peu comme le couvercle d’un bidon) actionnée par un muscle. Le son produit est amplifié dans une caisse de résonan…
[…] et sous chaque brin d’herbe desséché les cigales appellent avec fureur la rosée bienfaisante de la nuit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccigale
- cgiale
- ciagle
- cigael
- cigalle
- ciggale
- ciglae
- icgale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cigale - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).