citron
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,215
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
citron is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit du citronnier (Citrus × limon), de couleur jaune, à la peau rugueuse et de forme ovoïde. D’un goût acide, il est utilisé pressé dans de nombreuses boissons. Pronounced \si.tʁɔ̃\. It ranks #8,215 in French word frequency. Often confused with coton and cotton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.tʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for citron is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.tʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,215 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for citron, with forms such as "ccitron", "cirton", and "citorn". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "coton", "cotton", "citrons", 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 citron, spelled C-I-T-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit du citronnier (Citrus × limon), de couleur jaune, à la peau rugueuse et de forme ovoïde. D’un goût acide, il est utilisé pressé dans de nombreuses boissons.
- 2Tête, cerveau.
- 3Grenade (engin explosif dont la forme peut rappeler un citron).
- 4Exemplaire particulièrement défectueux d’un objet de série, en particulier une automobile.
- 5Citronnade.
- 6Citronnier.
- 7Combava, le fruit comme l'arbre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccitron,cirton,citorn,citrno,citronn,citrron,cittron,ctiron,ictron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for citron
Misspelling Variants of "citron"
Frequency rank: #8,215 in French
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