cités
French, noun
cités is spelled C-I-T-É-S (5 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cités is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of cité” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a masculine plural of cité. Without its accent, cites is a different word: “second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of citer”.
What does cités mean in English?
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of cité
noun
- 1
masculineplural of cité
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of citer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d’extinction.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is cités in French?
cités appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).