cisaille
\si.zaj\
The verdict
“cisaille” is uncommon French (frequency #74,658 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,658
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil servant à découper des matériaux durs ou épais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cisaille · cisaille · French
cisaille · rank #74,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,658
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châles
Nearest frequency peer: châles (-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 « cisaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chipset
chipset
25,347 corpus weight
- chutney
chutney
25,345 corpus weight
- châles
châles
25,344 corpus weight
- cisaille
cisaille
25,343 corpus weight
- cistercien
cistercien
25,342 corpus weight
- claquette
claquette
25,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cisaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cisaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.zaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cisaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cisaille is uncommon French at frequency #74,658 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.zaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cisaille, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is cisaille, spelled C-I-S-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Outil servant à découper des matériaux durs ou épais.
- 2Rognure qui reste de la monnaie qu’on a fabriquée.
- 3Outil avec de longues lames adapté à la taille manuelle des haies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cisaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une cisaille à tôle.
De ce fait, la cisaille surdimensionnée fait partie de l’outillage des squatters les plus aisés, se déplaçant même à bord de camionnettes et autres 4x4 grand luxe.
This word in other languages
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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