citrouille

\si.tʁuj\

/\si.tʁuj\/ noun

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The verdict

“citrouille” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,372
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de courge de la famille des Cucurbitacées, dont les tiges rampent à terre, de nom scientifique Cucurbita pepo.

Corpus desk

Index FR-citrouille · citrouille · French

citrouille · rank #27,372 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #27,372
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH citernes

Nearest frequency peer: citernes (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « citrouille »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « citrouille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

citrouille vs citrouilles
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for citrouille
PropertyValue
Headwordcitrouille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.tʁuj\
Letters10
Frequency rank#27,372
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « citrouille »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.citrouillese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « citernes » (#27,371), « clandestinité » (#27,373), « cid » (#27,370). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « citrouille » est au #27,372. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around citrouille (IPA \si.tʁuj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,372 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for citrouille, with forms such as "ccitrouille", "cirtouille", and "citoruille". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "citrouilles", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is citrouille, spelled C-I-T-R-O-U-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de courge de la famille des Cucurbitacées, dont les tiges rampent à terre, de nom scientifique Cucurbita pepo.
  2. 2
    Fruit même de cette plante, qui est employé comme légume.
  3. 3
    Incapable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how citrouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On prépara en conséquence des graines de citrouille, et quelques volailles destinées à peupler son jardin et sa basse-cour.
  2. Ce qu’il aime bien faire pousser, aussi, papa, c’est les citrouilles. Tu mets un pépin dans la terre, un petit pépin de rien du tout, en moins de deux il te sort une espèce de machin tropical, une grosse tige juteuse hérissée de poils qui rampe sur la terre, tu la vois avancer, un mètre par jour, et qui couvre tout de ses grosses feuilles râpeuses, et qui…

Synonyms

potiron

This word in other languages

pumpkin(English)calabaza(Español)Kürbis(Deutsch)abóbora(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccitrouille
  • cirtouille
  • citoruille
  • citroiulle
  • citrouile
  • citrouilel
  • citroulile
  • citrrouille
  • citruoille
  • cittrouille
  • ctirouille
  • ictrouille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of citrouille - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccitrouille1cirtouille2citoruille2citroiulle2citrouile1citrouilel2citroulile2citrrouille1
Edit distance from "citrouille"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "citrouille"?
"citrouille" is spelled C-I-T-R-O-U-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.tʁuj\.
What does "citrouille" mean?
As a noun, "citrouille" means: Espèce de courge de la famille des Cucurbitacées, dont les tiges rampent à terre, de nom scientifique Cucurbita pepo.
What words are commonly confused with "citrouille"?
"citrouille" is commonly confused with "citrouilles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "citrouille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "citrouille" is \si.tʁuj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "citrouille" come from?
"citrouille" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "citrouille", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

colocation#27,376chevalerie#27,365contrôlant#27,383cordonnier#27,385

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

citernes12 variantscoutumier12 variantscutanées12 variantsdiaporama12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list