concitoyen
\kɔ̃.si.twa.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“concitoyen” is uncommon French (frequency #71,373 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,373
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Citoyen de la même ville qu'un autre et, par extension, de la même région, de la même nation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concitoyen · concitoyen · French
concitoyen · rank #71,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,373
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compulsion
Nearest frequency peer: compulsion (-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 « concitoyen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- complaît
complaît
28,631 corpus weight
- complement
complement
28,630 corpus weight
- compulsion
compulsion
28,629 corpus weight
- concitoyen
concitoyen
28,628 corpus weight
- confectionn…
confectionnée
28,627 corpus weight
- confectionn…
confectionnées
28,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concitoyen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concitoyen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.si.twa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « concitoyen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
concitoyen is uncommon French at frequency #71,373 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.si.twa.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Citoyen de la même ville qu'un autre et, par extension, de la même région, de la même nation.".
concitoyen has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is concitoyen, spelled C-O-N-C-I-T-O-Y-E-N.
Definition
- 1Citoyen de la même ville qu'un autre et, par extension, de la même région, de la même nation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concitoyen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on l'eut trouvé dans la foule des électeurs du palatinat de Sandomir, qu'on l'eut mis sur un char, traîné au milieu des comices, salué de génuflexions et de houras unanimes, il ne douta point que ce ne fût une raillerie, et que ses concitoyens ne se jouassent de lui.
Ses concitoyens le regardaient comme un homme d'une grande opulence. Il possédait cinquante feddans de bonne terre; cinq gamousses, dix bœufs mugissaient dans ses étables.
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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