civil
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,665
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
civil is anFrenchadj. It means: Citoyen ; relatif aux citoyens. Pronounced \si.vil\. It ranks #2,665 in French word frequency. Often confused with CNIL and Cyril.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | civil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \si.vil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for civil is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.vil\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,665 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for civil, with forms such as "ccivil", "ciivl", and "civill". 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, "CNIL", "Cyril", "Covid", 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 civil, spelled C-I-V-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Citoyen ; relatif aux citoyens.
- 2Relatif à l’état civil des personnes.
- 3Qualifie le droit relatif à la personne physique, c’est-à-dire l'ensemble des règles qui déterminent le statut des personnes, aux relations juridiques entre elles, et aux biens. → voir droit civil
- 4Qui n'est ni militaire, ni religieux, ni politique.
- 5Qualifie le mariage contracté devant un officier d’état-civil
- 6Qualifie les obsèques faites sans aucune cérémonie religieuse.
- 7Qui appartient à la société, par opposition à sauvage.
- 8Affable ; poli ; courtois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccivil,ciivl,civill,civli,civvil,cviil,icvil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for civil
Misspelling Variants of "civil"
Frequency rank: #2,665 in French
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