citadel
\ˈsɪt.ə.dəl\
The verdict
“citadel” is uncommon French (frequency #97,788 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,788
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Citadelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-citadel · citadel · French
citadel · rank #97,788 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,788
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH circonscrits
Nearest frequency peer: circonscrits (-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 « citadel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cinsault
cinsault
2,216 corpus weight
- cinés
cinés
2,215 corpus weight
- circonscrits
circonscrits
2,214 corpus weight
- citadel
citadel
2,213 corpus weight
- claver
claver
2,212 corpus weight
- cleaver
cleaver
2,211 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « citadel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citadel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɪt.ə.dəl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « citadel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
citadel is uncommon French at frequency #97,788 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsɪt.ə.dəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Citadelle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for citadel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is citadel, spelled C-I-T-A-D-E-L.
Definition
- 1Citadelle.
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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