cita
\si.ta\
The verdict
“cita” is uncommon French (frequency #65,793 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,793
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe citer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cita · cita · French
cita · rank #65,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,793
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cioran
Nearest frequency peer: Cioran (-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 « cita »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cidres
cidres
34,211 corpus weight
- cimenter
cimenter
34,210 corpus weight
- Cioran
Cioran
34,209 corpus weight
- cita
cita
34,208 corpus weight
- CLM
CLM
34,207 corpus weight
- cluses
cluses
34,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cita » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cita |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ta\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cita » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cita is uncommon French at frequency #65,793 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe citer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cita, 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cita, spelled C-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe citer.
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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