cistercienne
\sis.tɛʁ.sjɛn\
The verdict
“cistercienne” is uncommon French (frequency #62,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,859
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moniale de l’ordre monastique chrétien fondé à l’abbaye de Cîteaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cistercienne · cistercienne · French
cistercienne · rank #62,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,859
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chuchotements
Nearest frequency peer: chuchotements (-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 « cistercienne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- christique
christique
37,145 corpus weight
- chubby
chubby
37,144 corpus weight
- chuchotemen…
chuchotements
37,143 corpus weight
- cistercienne
cistercienne
37,142 corpus weight
- claims
claims
37,141 corpus weight
- clapier
clapier
37,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cistercienne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cistercienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sis.tɛʁ.sjɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cistercienne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cistercienne is uncommon French at frequency #62,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sis.tɛʁ.sjɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moniale de l’ordre monastique chrétien fondé à l’abbaye de Cîteaux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cistercienne, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cistercienne, spelled C-I-S-T-E-R-C-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Moniale de l’ordre monastique chrétien fondé à l’abbaye de Cîteaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cistercienne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les frères et les sœurs qui ont donné leur vie l’ont donnée de manière consciente pour le peuple algérien », a ajouté sœur Bénédicte de la Croix, une cistercienne venue de France pour la cérémonie.
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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