cishet
\sis.ɛt\
The verdict
“cishet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux personnes qui sont à la fois cis (c’est-à-dire non trans) et hétérosexuelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cishet · cishet · French
cishet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | cishet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sis.ɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cishet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cishet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sis.ɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux personnes qui sont à la fois cis (c’est-à-dire non trans) et hétérosexuelles.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cishet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cishet, spelled C-I-S-H-E-T.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux personnes qui sont à la fois cis (c’est-à-dire non trans) et hétérosexuelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cishet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tolérance. Cela voudrait donc dire que nous sommes différent.es de la norme de par notre identité de genre ou notre orientation sexuelle mais que les personnes cishet ont la bonté d’accepter notre présence dans leur environnement.
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.