ciseaux
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,429
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
ciseaux is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner. Pronounced \si.zo\. Often confused with coteaux and copeaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciseaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.zo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ciseaux is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.zo\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,429 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ciseaux, with forms such as "cciseaux", "ciesaux", and "cisaeux". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "coteaux", "copeaux", "cristaux", 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 ciseaux, spelled C-I-S-E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.
- 2Tir de volée en extension, tête en bas et dos au but, où l’impulsion et le tir sont réalisés avec la même jambe.
- 3Meuble représentant l’outil de couture du même nom dans les armoiries. Ils sont souvent représentés ouverts, les lames passées en sautoir. À rapprocher de forces et forces de tondeur.
- 4Pratique sexuelle qui consiste à introduire un doigt dans l'anus et un autre dans le vagin et à leur faire faire des mouvements similaires à ceux d'une paire de ciseaux.
- 5Position sexuelle au cours de laquelle deux partenaires, généralement deux femmes, se font face et frottent leurs organes génitaux en entrecroisant leurs jambes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cciseaux,ciesaux,cisaeux,ciseauxx,ciseaxu,ciseuax,cisseaux,csieaux,icseaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ciseaux
Misspelling Variants of "ciseaux"
Frequency rank: #14,429 in French
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