Cir
The verdict
“Cir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,282) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,282
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cyr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cir · Cir · French
Cir · rank #29,282 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,282
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chow
Nearest frequency peer: chow (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Cir »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- chics
chics
70,722 corpus weight
- choucroute
choucroute
70,721 corpus weight
- chow
chow
70,720 corpus weight
- Cir
Cir
70,719 corpus weight
- cirer
cirer
70,717 corpus weight
- coalitions
coalitions
70,716 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Cir » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Cir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Cir »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cir is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "Cm", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #29,282 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Cyr.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cir, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "Cm", "CV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Cir, spelled C-I-R.
Definition
- 1Cyr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sant Cir, saint Cyr.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).