cigarette
\si.ɡa.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“cigarette” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,643
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit cylindre de tabac finement haché entouré d'une feuille de papier fin, que l’on fume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cigarette · cigarette · French
cigarette · rank #5,643 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,643
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonies
Nearest frequency peer: colonies (+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 « cigarette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cage
cage
94,362 corpus weight
- caractérist…
caractéristique
94,361 corpus weight
- cigarette
cigarette
94,358 corpus weight
- colonies
colonies
94,357 corpus weight
- considérabl…
considérablement
94,356 corpus weight
- correct
correct
94,354 corpus weight
What this shows « cigarette » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cigarette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cigarette (IPA \si.ɡa.ʁɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,643 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cigarette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] elle atteignit une cigarette sur la cheminée et l’alluma.
— Qu’est donc devenu de Raittolbe ? fit Raoule, lançant au plafond la fumée d’une cigarette turque.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cigarette", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).