cirrus
\si.ʁys\
The verdict
“cirrus” is uncommon French (frequency #75,509 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,509
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuage présent dans la couche supérieure de la troposphère (entre 6000 et 15000 mètres d’altitude), formé de cristaux de glace en forme de filaments blancs et qui ne génèrent pas de précipitations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cirrus · cirrus · French
cirrus · rank #75,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,509
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Circassiens
Nearest frequency peer: Circassiens (-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 « cirrus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Châteaulin
Châteaulin
24,495 corpus weight
- ciblait
ciblait
24,494 corpus weight
- Circassiens
Circassiens
24,493 corpus weight
- cirrus
cirrus
24,492 corpus weight
- civilisatri…
civilisatrice
24,491 corpus weight
- Claeys
Claeys
24,490 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cirrus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cirrus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cirrus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cirrus is uncommon French at frequency #75,509 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nuage présent dans la couche supérieure de la troposphère (entre 6000 et 15000 mètres d’altitude), formé de cristaux de glace en forme de filaments blancs et qui ne génèrent pas de précipitations.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cirrus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cirrus, spelled C-I-R-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nuage présent dans la couche supérieure de la troposphère (entre 6000 et 15000 mètres d’altitude), formé de cristaux de glace en forme de filaments blancs et qui ne génèrent pas de précipitations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cirrus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les traînées de condensation d’avions ne sont pas des cirrus : leur genèse et leur composition chimique sont différentes.
Dans le premier cas l’apparition des cirrus annonce en effet la pluie et les coups de vent, mais dans le second cas elle signifie seulement qu’un système nuageux passe au large de la station.
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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