cire
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,617
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ester d'éthylène glycol et d'acides gras. Pronounced \siʁ\. It ranks #9,617 in French word frequency. Often confused with CR and cru.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cire is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \siʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,617 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for cire, with forms such as "ccire", "cier", and "cirre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CR", "cru", "clé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cire, spelled C-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ester d'éthylène glycol et d'acides gras.
- 2Matière molle, très fusible et jaunâtre, avec laquelle les abeilles construisent les gâteaux de leurs ruches et qu’on emploie à différents usages, dans les arts, dans l’économie domestique, etc.
- 3Produit ménager, parfois à base de cire d'abeille, utilisé pour entretenir et faire briller les objets en bois.
- 4Matière plastique à chaud et rigide à froid.
- 5Luminaire d’une église.
- 6Composition faite de laque et d’autres matières, à laquelle on donne diverses couleurs et dont on se sert pour cacheter les lettres.
- 7Humeur épaisse et jaune qui se forme dans les oreilles. → voir cérumen
- 8Résine, assez semblable à la cire des abeilles, qui coule de certains arbres et qu’on appelle cire végétale.
- 9Membrane ayant l’aspect de la cire, qu’on remarque à la base du bec de certains oiseaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccire,cier,cirre,icre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cire
Misspelling Variants of "cire"
Frequency rank: #9,617 in French
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