ciste
\sist\
The verdict
“ciste” is uncommon French (frequency #90,549 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,549
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbrisseau poussant le plus souvent sur le pourtour méditerranéen, à feuilles persistantes simples, souvent velues, aux fleurs à cinq pétales, souvent plissés roses ou blancs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ciste · ciste · French
ciste · rank #90,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,549
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH classez
Nearest frequency peer: classez (+3 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 « ciste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cholo
cholo
9,458 corpus weight
- chosen
chosen
9,456 corpus weight
- ciste
ciste
9,452 corpus weight
- classez
classez
9,449 corpus weight
- clôturent
clôturent
9,447 corpus weight
- CNAF
CNAF
9,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ciste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sist\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ciste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ciste is uncommon French at frequency #90,549 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbrisseau poussant le plus souvent sur le pourtour méditerranéen, à feuilles persistantes simples, souvent velues, aux fleurs à cinq pétales, souvent plissés roses ou blancs.".
ciste has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ciste, spelled C-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Arbrisseau poussant le plus souvent sur le pourtour méditerranéen, à feuilles persistantes simples, souvent velues, aux fleurs à cinq pétales, souvent plissés roses ou blancs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ciste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une espèce de ciste, le ciste de Crète, donne une sorte de gomme odorante nommée ladanum qui était en usage en médecine.
Les cistes sont, comme nous l’avons indiqué, des plantes méditerranéennes; elles sont spéciales aux pentes qui inclinent vers notre mer intérieure.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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