cil
French, noun/sil/
cil is spelled C-I-L (3 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cil is a French masculine noun meaning “eyelash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poil des paupières”.
What does cil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineeyelash
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poil des paupières. 2. Poil disposé en rang sur le bord d’une partie quelconque d’une plante.
noun: 1. Vingt-neuvième lettre de l’alphabet géorgien, წ.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cil
- cils plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cil?
- /sil/
- \sil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cil in French?
cil appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).