citoyen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,866
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
citoyen is aFrenchnoun. It means: Homme libre de l’Empire romain, doté de droits politiques dans une cité. En 212, l’empereur Caracalla étend le droit de citoyenneté romaine à l’ensemble des hommes libres de l’empire romain. Pronounced \si.twa.jɛ̃\. It ranks #2,866 in French word frequency. Often confused with côtoyé and côtoyer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citoyen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.twa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for citoyen is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.twa.jɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,866 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for citoyen, with forms such as "ccitoyen", "ciotyen", and "citoeyn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "côtoyé", "côtoyer", "citoyens", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is citoyen, spelled C-I-T-O-Y-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Homme libre de l’Empire romain, doté de droits politiques dans une cité. En 212, l’empereur Caracalla étend le droit de citoyenneté romaine à l’ensemble des hommes libres de l’empire romain.
- 2Homme libre appartenant au corps civique dans les cités de la Grèce antique.
- 3Personne faisant partie de ceux qui, dans un État organisé, jouissent des mêmes droits et obéissent aux mêmes lois.
- 4Personne faisant partie de ceux qui, dans un État organisé, jouissent des mêmes droits et obéissent aux mêmes lois.
- 5Celui qui habite dans une ville et y jouit du droit de cité.
- 6Appellation que, dans certains milieux, en particulier pendant la Révolution française, on substitue à monsieur.
- 7Type, gars, individu.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccitoyen,ciotyen,citoeyn,citoyenn,citoyne,citoyyen,cittoyen,cityoen,ctioyen,ictoyen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "citoyen"
Frequency rank: #2,866 in French
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