ciseau
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,882
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
ciseau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lame, pièce métallique aiguisée à son extrémité, servant à couper ou à travailler le bois, le métal, etc. Pronounced \si.zo\. Often confused with coteau and Comeau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.zo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ciseau is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.zo\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,882 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ciseau, with forms such as "cciseau", "ciesau", and "cisaeu". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "coteau", "Comeau", "ciseaux", 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 ciseau, spelled C-I-S-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lame, pièce métallique aiguisée à son extrémité, servant à couper ou à travailler le bois, le métal, etc.
- 2Autres outils à la fonction ou à la forme similaires.
- 3Manière de travailler d’un sculpteur.
- 4Insecte de l’ordre des hémiptères, famille des gerridés ou des hydrométridés, capables de se déplacer à la surface de l’eau, les pattes antérieures ne servant qu’à la prédation.
- 5Prise de lutte serrant l’adversaire entre les deux jambes, comme les deux lames d’une paire de ciseaux.
- 6Technique de saut en hauteur.
- 7Position permettant le frottement des parties génitales.
- 8Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cciseau,ciesau,cisaeu,ciseua,cisseau,csieau,icseau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ciseau
Misspelling Variants of "ciseau"
Frequency rank: #28,882 in French
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