cii
[t͡ʃi:]
The verdict
“cii” is uncommon French (frequency #70,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,475
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme possessive à la troisième personne du singulier de ca.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cii · cii · French
cii · rank #70,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,475
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH città
Nearest frequency peer: città (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cii »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charpie
charpie
29,530 corpus weight
- cheetah
cheetah
29,529 corpus weight
- Cheverny
Cheverny
29,528 corpus weight
- cii
cii
29,526 corpus weight
- città
città
29,525 corpus weight
- clémentes
clémentes
29,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cii » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cii |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃi:] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cii » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cii is uncommon French at frequency #70,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t͡ʃi:]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme possessive à la troisième personne du singulier de ca.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cii, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cii, spelled C-I-I.
Definition
- 1Forme possessive à la troisième personne du singulier de ca.
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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