Cilicie
\si.li.si\
The verdict
“Cilicie” is uncommon French (frequency #50,721 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,721
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne province romaine située dans la moitié orientale du sud de l’Asie mineure (Turquie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cilicie · Cilicie · French
Cilicie · rank #50,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,721
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châtier
Nearest frequency peer: châtier (-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 « Cilicie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chir
Chir
49,283 corpus weight
- choriste
choriste
49,282 corpus weight
- châtier
châtier
49,281 corpus weight
- Cilicie
Cilicie
49,280 corpus weight
- cinglant
cinglant
49,279 corpus weight
- clemens
clemens
49,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cilicie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cilicie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.li.si\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cilicie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cilicie is uncommon French at frequency #50,721 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \si.li.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne province romaine située dans la moitié orientale du sud de l’Asie mineure (Turquie).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cilicie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Cilicie, spelled C-I-L-I-C-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne province romaine située dans la moitié orientale du sud de l’Asie mineure (Turquie).
This word in other languages
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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