cinglé
\sɛ̃.ɡle\
The verdict
“cinglé” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,523
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cingle · cinglé · French
cinglé · rank #30,523 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,523
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ciels
Nearest frequency peer: ciels (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cinglé”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- chin
chin
69,481 corpus weight
- Choiseul
Choiseul
69,480 corpus weight
- ciels
ciels
69,479 corpus weight
- cinglé
cinglé
69,478 corpus weight
- circulez
circulez
69,477 corpus weight
- citez
citez
69,476 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cinglé” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinglé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.ɡle\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “cinglé” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cinglé (IPA \sɛ̃.ɡle\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cinglé, with forms such as "ccinglé", "cignlé", and "cingglé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "civile", "circle", "cintre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cinglé, spelled C-I-N-G-L-É.
Definition
- 1Fou.
- 2Enragé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cinglé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sachez que toutes les poupées ne sont pas cinglées et que, Dieu merci, il y en a quelques-unes qui préfèrent ces chevaliers modernes que sont les as de la police judiciaire aux lanceurs de contre-ut efféminés.
À un moment, quand on dit trop aux gens que leur vie n’a aucun sens, ils deviennent tous complètement fous, ils courent partout en poussant des cris, ils n’arrivent pas à accepter que leur existence n’a pas de but, quand on y réfléchit c’est assez inadmissible de se dire qu'on est là pour rien, pour mourir et c’est tout, pas étonnant que tout le monde dev…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccinglé
- cignlé
- cingglé
- cingle
- cingllé
- cingél
- cinlgé
- cinnglé
- cniglé
- icnglé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cinglé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cinglé", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "cinglé" maps to 7 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "civile". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #30,523 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.