cirse
French, noun/siʁs/
cirse is spelled C-I-R-S-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cirse is a French masculine noun meaning “thistle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plantes du genre Cirsium, aux feuilles épineuses, de la famille des Astéracées, très proche du chardon”.
What does cirse mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethistle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plantes du genre Cirsium, aux feuilles épineuses, de la famille des Astéracées, très proche du chardon.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cirse
- cirses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cirse?
- /siʁs/
- \siʁs\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cirse in French?
cirse appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).