citernes

\si.tɛʁn\

/\si.tɛʁn\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « citernes » 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).

citernes vs critères
63% similar
citernes vs citées
63% similar
citernes vs cernes
75% similar

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

Key facts for citernes
PropertyValue
Headwordciternes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.tɛʁn\
Letters8
Frequency rank#27,371
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « citernes »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cid » (#27,370), « citrouille » (#27,372), « chip » (#27,369). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « citernes » est au #27,371. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de citerne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

cciternes1cietrnes2citenres2citerens2citerness1citernnes1citernse2citerrnes1
Edit distance from "citernes"

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 "citernes"?
"citernes" is spelled C-I-T-E-R-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \si.tɛʁn\.
What does "citernes" mean?
As a noun, "citernes" means: Pluriel de citerne.
What words are commonly confused with "citernes"?
"citernes" is commonly confused with "critères", "citées", "cernes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "citernes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "citernes" is \si.tɛʁn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "citernes" come from?
"citernes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list