cis-hétéro
\sis.e.te.ʁo\
The verdict
“cis-hétéro” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hétérosexuel non-trans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cis-hetero · cis-hétéro · French
cis-hétéro · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cis-hétéro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sis.e.te.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cis-hétéro is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sis.e.te.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cis-hétéro in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cis-hétéro, spelled C-I-S---H-É-T-É-R-O.
Definition
- 1Hétérosexuel non-trans.
- 2Relatif à la cishétérosexualité, à la cishétéronormativité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cis-hétéro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est naïf de penser qu’être allié·e, c’est traiter les LGBTI à égalité avec les cis-hétéros, parce qu’un traitement différencié serait homo/lesbophobe ou transphobe.
Je suis peiné de réaliser que la société cis-hétéro a fait d’un film sur l’amour passionnel une sorte de coquille vide destinée à l’humour.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.