cité
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,224
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ville, surtout quand on veut en faire ressortir l’importance. Pronounced \si.te\. It ranks #1,224 in French word frequency. Often confused with Ct and clé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.te\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cité is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,224 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for cité, with forms such as "ccité", "cite", and "citté". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ct", "clé", "CPE", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cité, spelled C-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville, surtout quand on veut en faire ressortir l’importance.
- 2Habitants d’une ville ; ensemble des citoyens qui la composent.
- 3Citoyenneté.
- 4Constitution de l’État, dans les expressions :
- 5Territoire composé quelquefois de villes et de bourgades et gouverné par des lois communes.
- 6Partie la plus ancienne de la ville et où se trouve l’église cathédrale ou principale.
- 7Groupe de maisons formant un ensemble.
- 8Groupe de maisons formant un ensemble.
- 9Dans certaines grandes villes, ensemble de maisons individuelles formant un ensemble clos.
- 10Banlieue d’une grande ville.
- 11Ensemble architectural d’habitats collectifs.
- 12Espace démocratique, réunissant souvent les affaires politiques d’un pays entier ou d’une région, mais nommé cité en référence à Aristote et aux cités-États de jadis, et en référence à la citoyenneté et aux devoirs de citoyen.
- 13Statut d'une municipalité équivalent au terme anglais city, supérieur à celui d'une ville.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccité,cite,citté,ciét,ctié,icté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cité
Misspelling Variants of "cité"
Frequency rank: #1,224 in French
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