cithare
\si.taʁ\
The verdict
“cithare” is uncommon French (frequency #69,689 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,689
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à corde pincées qui vibrent à vide, dérivé de la lyre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cithare · cithare · French
cithare · rank #69,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,689
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cirée
Nearest frequency peer: cirée (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cithare »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cicatrise
cicatrise
30,315 corpus weight
- cimier
cimier
30,314 corpus weight
- cirée
cirée
30,313 corpus weight
- cithare
cithare
30,312 corpus weight
- claveau
claveau
30,311 corpus weight
- climatisés
climatisés
30,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cithare » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cithare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cithare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cithare is uncommon French at frequency #69,689 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
cithare doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cithare, spelled C-I-T-H-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument à corde pincées qui vibrent à vide, dérivé de la lyre.
- 2(sens moderne) Instrument de musique fort usité dans l’Antiquité, composé d’une sorte de caisse sur la face antérieure de laquelle sont fixées des cordes rattachées au sommet.
- 3Instrument de musique traditionnel chinois à cordes pincées, appelé qin.
- 4Synonyme de fausse limande (poisson).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cithare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cithare est un des instruments les plus pauvres, les moins expressifs qu’on puisse imaginer.
A côté de ces pseudolyres, de ces cithares, si l'on préfère les désigner sous ce nom, qui rappelle mieux leur origine, il existait encore dans les Gaules des harpes.
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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