ciselées
\si.zə.le\
The verdict
“ciselées” is uncommon French (frequency #78,271 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,271
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de ciselé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ciselees · ciselées · French
ciselées · rank #78,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,271
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ciguë
Nearest frequency peer: ciguë (-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 « ciselées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Châtenay
Châtenay
21,732 corpus weight
- ciguë
ciguë
21,731 corpus weight
- ciselées
ciselées
21,730 corpus weight
- clasher
clasher
21,729 corpus weight
- clavière
clavière
21,728 corpus weight
- Cloclo
Cloclo
21,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ciselées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciselées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.zə.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ciselées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ciselées is uncommon French at frequency #78,271 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.zə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de ciselé.".
ciselées has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 ciselées, spelled C-I-S-E-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de ciselé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ciselées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et partout des portes, des passages couverts, des arcades ciselées, des venelles, des fenêtres qui donnaient d’une rue haute vers une rue plus basse, avec des marches et des recoins où trônaient des autels de pierre noire.
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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