civilités
\si.vi.li.te\
The verdict
“civilités” is uncommon French (frequency #98,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,888
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de civilité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-civilites · civilités · French
civilités · rank #98,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,888
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citronnée
Nearest frequency peer: citronnée (-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 « civilités »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- choupo
choupo
1,116 corpus weight
- circuité
circuité
1,115 corpus weight
- citronnée
citronnée
1,114 corpus weight
- civilités
civilités
1,113 corpus weight
- classera
classera
1,111 corpus weight
- clonés
clonés
1,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « civilités » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | civilités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.vi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « civilités » en français
Rare enough to double-check
civilités is uncommon French at frequency #98,888 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.vi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de civilité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for civilités, 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is civilités, spelled C-I-V-I-L-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de civilité.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).