cigare
\si.ɡaʁ\
The verdict
“cigare” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,567. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,567
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit rouleau de feuilles de tabac préparé pour être fumé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cigare · cigare · French
cigare · rank #21,567 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,567
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH changeront
Nearest frequency peer: changeront (-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 « cigare »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CEA
CEA
78,437 corpus weight
- CEE
CEE
78,436 corpus weight
- changeront
changeront
78,435 corpus weight
- cigare
cigare
78,434 corpus weight
- citadins
citadins
78,433 corpus weight
- citoyennes
citoyennes
78,432 corpus weight
What this shows « cigare » 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 | cigare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɡaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cigare »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cigare (IPA \si.ɡaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,567 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 cigare, with forms such as "ccigare", "cgiare", and "ciagre". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "cire", "Clare", "cintre", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cigare, spelled C-I-G-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Petit rouleau de feuilles de tabac préparé pour être fumé.
- 2Réprimande ; engueulade.
- 3Tête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cigare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne fume plus que le cigare par tous les pays que nous avons parcourus. Il est vrai qu’en général on l’implante perpendiculairement dans une espèce de pipe bâtarde à bout d’ambre, avec laquelle il fait un angle aigu d’un aspect drolatique. La fumée monte ainsi par-dessus la tête du tabacolâtre et semble s’exhaler du tuyau d’une locomotive en miniature.…
Hurtaud alluma un cigare à la flamme d’une bougie qu’on lui tendit, et se rassit lourdement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccigare
- cgiare
- ciagre
- cigaer
- cigarre
- ciggare
- cigrae
- icgare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cigare - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cigare", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).