citadin
\si.ta.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“citadin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,859
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui habite une ville ou une zone urbaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-citadin · citadin · French
citadin · rank #35,859 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,859
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chimiquement
Nearest frequency peer: chimiquement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « citadin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Charcot
Charcot
64,145 corpus weight
- chatillon
chatillon
64,144 corpus weight
- chimiquement
chimiquement
64,143 corpus weight
- citadin
citadin
64,142 corpus weight
- claquant
claquant
64,141 corpus weight
- coagulation
coagulation
64,140 corpus weight
What this shows « citadin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citadin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ta.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « citadin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around citadin (IPA \si.ta.dɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui habite une ville ou une zone urbaine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for citadin, with forms such as "ccitadin", "ciatdin", and "citaddin". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "citait", "citation", "citadins", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is citadin, spelled C-I-T-A-D-I-N.
Definition
- 1Celui qui habite une ville ou une zone urbaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how citadin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ô riche et chanceux Hérault, toi qui verses au cœur des citadins déprimés l'intarissable joie liquide de tes litres vendus par toi trente sous et revendus, par l'épicier ou sur le zinc, trois francs.
Pour le monde développé , le XIXᵉ siècle est le siècle par excellence de l’urbanisation. Pour l'Europe (sans la Russie), le nombre de citadins (critère des 2 mille habitants) passe de 31 millions en 1800 à 170 millions en 1910.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccitadin
- ciatdin
- citaddin
- citadinn
- citadni
- citaidn
- citdain
- cittadin
- ctiadin
- ictadin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of citadin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).