citer

\si.te\

/\si.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“citer” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,596. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,596
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assigner à comparaître devant une juridiction civile ou religieuse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-citer · citer · French

citer · rank #3,596 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,596
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH censé

Nearest frequency peer: censé (-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 « citer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « citer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

citer vs Cte
40% similar
citer vs côte
60% similar
citer vs city
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for citer
PropertyValue
Headwordciter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\si.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,596
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « citer »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).citerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « censé » (#3,595), « composée » (#3,597), « canadiens » (#3,594). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « citer » est au #3,596. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around citer (IPA \si.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,596 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for citer, with forms such as "cciter", "cietr", and "citerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cte", "côte", "city", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is citer, spelled C-I-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assigner à comparaître devant une juridiction civile ou religieuse.
  2. 2
    Alléguer ; rapporter.
  3. 3
    Désigner le passage du livre que l’on allègue ou l’auteur de la nouvelle qu’on rapporte ; nommer celui de qui on tient une nouvelle, ou quelque chose de semblable.
  4. 4
    Signaler, distinguer une personne ou une chose qui mérite d’être remarquée, de quelque manière que ce soit.
  5. 5
    Action pour le toréador d’attirer l’attention du taureau, de le provoquer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how citer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Citer devant un tribunal, en police correctionnelle. - Citer un prévenu. - Citer des témoins devant une Cour d’assises.
  2. Citer devant le concile - Citer quelqu’un à comparaître.

This word in other languages

summon(English)citar(Español)vorladen(Deutsch)citar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cciter
  • cietr
  • citerr
  • citre
  • citter
  • ctier
  • icter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of citer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cciter1cietr2citerr1citre2citter1ctier2icter2
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "citer"?
"citer" is spelled C-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \si.te\.
What does "citer" mean?
As a verb, "citer" means: Assigner à comparaître devant une juridiction civile ou religieuse.
What words are commonly confused with "citer"?
"citer" is commonly confused with "Cte", "côte", "city". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "citer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "citer" is \si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "citer" come from?
"citer" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "citer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

censé#3,595dates#3,603êtres#3,583gorge#3,614

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Suède7 variantsSNCF7 variantsSache7 variantsnuits7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list