cyanure

\sja.nyʁ\

/\sja.nyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cyanure” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,030. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,030
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combinaison du cyanogène avec un corps simple.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cyanure · cyanure · French

cyanure · rank #27,030 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,030
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH culpa

Nearest frequency peer: culpa (-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 « cyanure »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « cyanure » 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).

cyanure vs chanvre
71% similar
cyanure vs chantre
71% similar

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

Key facts for cyanure
PropertyValue
Headwordcyanure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sja.nyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,030
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cyanure »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cyanurese 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 « culpa » (#27,029), « cygnes » (#27,031), « créait » (#27,028). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cyanure » est au #27,030. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around cyanure (IPA \sja.nyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,030 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cyanure, with forms such as "caynure", "ccyanure", and "cyannure". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "chanvre", "chantre", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 cyanure, spelled C-Y-A-N-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Combinaison du cyanogène avec un corps simple.
  2. 2
    Ion CN⁻.
  3. 3
    Sel de l'acide cyanhydrique et d'une base forte, tel le cyanure de potassium (KCN), et qui constitue l'un des composés simples les plus toxiques connus, entraînant une mort extrêmement rapide par arrêt soudain de la respiration cellulaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cyanure de potassium, d’or, d’argent, de mercure.
  2. Quelques 700 tonnes de cyanure de sodium étaient stockées dans cet entrepôt alors que la limite autorisée est de 24 tonnes… Un composant qui a été dispersé sur plus d'un kilomètre de rayon et peut dégager au contact de l'eau du cyanure d'hydrogène, un gaz mortel.

This word in other languages

cyanide(English)cianuro(Español)Zyanid(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • caynure
  • ccyanure
  • cyannure
  • cyanrue
  • cyanuer
  • cyanurre
  • cyaunre
  • cynaure
  • cyyanure
  • ycanure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cyanure - 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.

caynure2ccyanure1cyannure1cyanrue2cyanuer2cyanurre1cyaunre2cynaure2
Edit distance from "cyanure"

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 "cyanure"?
"cyanure" is spelled C-Y-A-N-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sja.nyʁ\.
What does "cyanure" mean?
As a noun, "cyanure" means: Combinaison du cyanogène avec un corps simple.
What words are commonly confused with "cyanure"?
"cyanure" is commonly confused with "chanvre", "chantre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cyanure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cyanure" is \sja.nyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cyanure" come from?
"cyanure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

crânien#27,027conique#27,017colosse#27,010Cocteau#27,007

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

cygnes10 variantsclarisse10 variantsescient10 variantschoisisse10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list