Cilaos
The verdict
“Cilaos” is uncommon French (frequency #80,043 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,043
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de La Réunion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cilaos · Cilaos · French
Cilaos · rank #80,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,043
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cimaises
Nearest frequency peer: cimaises (+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 « Cilaos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- choyée
choyée
19,961 corpus weight
- chromosomiq…
chromosomiques
19,960 corpus weight
- Cilaos
Cilaos
19,958 corpus weight
- cimaises
cimaises
19,957 corpus weight
- cintrées
cintrées
19,956 corpus weight
- citronnier
citronnier
19,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cilaos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cilaos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cilaos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cilaos is uncommon French at frequency #80,043 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de La Réunion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cilaos, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Cilaos, spelled C-I-L-A-O-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de La Réunion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cilaos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des essais de sériciculture tentés à Cilaos, dans l'Île de la Réunion, tout récemment, ont donné de bons résultats.
Pour le dessert, Jeanine avait prévu un vin de Cilaos avec le gâteau. Mémé Gâté, grande amatrice de ce breuvage moelleux, avait exigé qu’on en remplisse son verre à ras bord. C’est-à-dire jusqu’à ce que le précieux liquide forme un débord convexe au-dessus de son verre.
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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