citernes
\si.tɛʁn\
The verdict
“citernes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,371
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de citerne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-citernes · citernes · French
citernes · rank #27,371 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,371
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cid
Nearest frequency peer: cid (-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 « citernes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chignon
chignon
72,633 corpus weight
- chip
chip
72,632 corpus weight
- cid
cid
72,631 corpus weight
- citernes
citernes
72,630 corpus weight
- citrouille
citrouille
72,629 corpus weight
- clandestini…
clandestinité
72,628 corpus weight
What this shows « citernes » 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 | citernes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.tɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « citernes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around citernes (IPA \si.tɛʁn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,371 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de citerne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for citernes, with forms such as "cciternes", "cietrnes", and "citenres". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "critères", "citées", "cernes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is citernes, spelled C-I-T-E-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de citerne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how citernes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La malade fut traitée par les antiœdèmes cérébraux habituels : Dexamétazone (12 mg) et solutions hypertoniques, 3 fois par jour ; dans la même journée une deuxième tomographie axiale computerisée démontra la présence de liquide de contraste dans les citernes de la base (Fig. 1).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cciternes
- cietrnes
- citenres
- citerens
- citerness
- citernnes
- citernse
- citerrnes
- citrenes
- citternes
- ctiernes
- icternes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of citernes - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "citernes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).