Cîteaux
\si.to\
The verdict
“Cîteaux” is uncommon French (frequency #51,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,396
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de la principale maison de l’ordre des bernardins, qui, émané de celui de saint Benoît, a eu pour instituteur saint Robert, abbé de Molesme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-citeaux · Cîteaux · French
Cîteaux · rank #51,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,396
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH céréaliers
Nearest frequency peer: céréaliers (-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.
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48,607 corpus weight
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48,606 corpus weight
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48,605 corpus weight
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cîteaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cîteaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.to\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cîteaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cîteaux is uncommon French at frequency #51,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \si.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de la principale maison de l’ordre des bernardins, qui, émané de celui de saint Benoît, a eu pour instituteur saint Robert, abbé de Molesme.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cîteaux in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Cîteaux, spelled C-Î-T-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de la principale maison de l’ordre des bernardins, qui, émané de celui de saint Benoît, a eu pour instituteur saint Robert, abbé de Molesme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cîteaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet abbé, en 1098, se retira avec 20 de ses religieux dans un lieu appelé Cîteaux, à 5 lieues de Dijon, diocèse de Châlon-sur-Saône, et saint Bernard en 1113 y conduisit 30 de ses compagnons.
En France on appelle Bernardins tous les religieux de l’ordre de Cîteaux.
This word in other languages
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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