citais
\si.tɛ\
The verdict
“citais” is uncommon French (frequency #79,158 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,158
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe citer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-citais · citais · French
citais · rank #79,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,158
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ciri
Nearest frequency peer: ciri (-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 « citais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chibok
Chibok
20,847 corpus weight
- christologie
christologie
20,846 corpus weight
- chtis
chtis
20,845 corpus weight
- ciri
ciri
20,844 corpus weight
- citais
citais
20,843 corpus weight
- clairsemés
clairsemés
20,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « citais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « citais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
citais is uncommon French at frequency #79,158 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for citais, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 citais, spelled C-I-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe citer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait 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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