cishet
French, noun/si.sɛt/
cishet is spelled C-I-S-H-E-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cishet is a French feminine noun meaning “cishet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui vit dans le genre correspondant à son sexe et est attirée par des personnes d’un autre genre”.
What does cishet mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cishet
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif aux personnes qui sont à la fois cis (c’est-à-dire non trans) et hétérosexuelles.
noun: 1. Personne qui vit dans le genre correspondant à son sexe et est attirée par des personnes d’un autre genre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cishet
- cishets plural
- cis het alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cishet?
- /si.sɛt/
- \sis.ɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cishet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cishet in French?
cishet appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).