citoyen d’honneur
\si.twa.jɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“citoyen d’honneur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Titre accordé par une municipalité ou un pays à une personne de l’extérieur dont elle veut honorer les mérites, ou pour la remercier de services rendus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citoyen d’honneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.twa.jɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “citoyen d’honneur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
citoyen d’honneur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.twa.jɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for citoyen d’honneur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is citoyen d’honneur, spelled C-I-T-O-Y-E-N- -D-’-H-O-N-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Titre accordé par une municipalité ou un pays à une personne de l’extérieur dont elle veut honorer les mérites, ou pour la remercier de services rendus.
- 2Personne ayant reçu ce titre.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “citoyen d’honneur”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-I-T-O-Y-E-N- -D-’-H-O-N-N-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.twa.jɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.