cigarette
\si.ɡa.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“cigarette” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,643 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,643
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit cylindre de tabac finement haché entouré d'une feuille de papier fin, que l’on fume.
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 | cigarette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɡa.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cigarette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cigarette is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ɡa.ʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,643 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cigarette, with forms such as "ccigarette", "cgiarette", and "ciagrette". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cigarettes", "Charette", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cigarette, spelled C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit cylindre de tabac finement haché entouré d'une feuille de papier fin, que l’on fume.
- 2Tout objet qui peut rappeler la forme d’une cigarette.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccigarette,cgiarette,ciagrette,cigaertte,cigarete,cigaretet,cigarrette,cigartete,ciggarette,cigraette,icgarette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cigarette - 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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Using “cigarette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.ɡa.ʁɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cigarettes” - see the side-by-side comparison. cigarette vs cigarettes
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.