cigogne noire
\si.ɡɔɲ nwaʁ\
The verdict
“cigogne noire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cigogne au plumage presque totalement noir à reflets verts et pourpres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cigogne noire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɡɔɲ nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cigogne noire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cigogne noire is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ɡɔɲ nwaʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cigogne au plumage presque totalement noir à reflets verts et pourpres.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cigogne noire in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cigogne noire, spelled C-I-G-O-G-N-E- -N-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Cigogne au plumage presque totalement noir à reflets verts et pourpres.
This word in other languages
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Using “cigogne noire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-I-G-O-G-N-E- -N-O-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.ɡɔɲ nwaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.