civette
\si.vɛt\
The verdict
“civette” is uncommon French (frequency #91,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,534
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Viverridé carnivore d’Afrique et d’Asie, au corps allongé, recherché pour le musc sécrété par deux glandes anales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-civette · civette · French
civette · rank #91,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,534
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citerons
Nearest frequency peer: citerons (-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 « civette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- childhood
childhood
8,471 corpus weight
- chromium
chromium
8,470 corpus weight
- citerons
citerons
8,468 corpus weight
- civette
civette
8,467 corpus weight
- clever
clever
8,466 corpus weight
- closet
closet
8,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « civette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | civette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « civette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
civette is uncommon French at frequency #91,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.vɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for civette, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is civette, spelled C-I-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Viverridé carnivore d’Afrique et d’Asie, au corps allongé, recherché pour le musc sécrété par deux glandes anales.
- 2Fourrure de cet animal, également recherchée.
- 3Musc de l’animal, utilisé dans la préparation de parfums.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how civette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La genette du bassin méditerranéen est la seule parente européenne des civettes.
Cette dernière avait travaillé dans la cantine d’une usine située dans la ville de Quang Zhouxing, au nord de la Chine, qui servait de la civette, interdite à la consommation par le gouvernement après l’épidémie de SRAS de 2003.
Synonyms
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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